**Nearly a week after a deadly quake and landslides hit West Sumatra, efforts are being stepped up to get relief supplies to more remote communities.**Some have not yet received any help; others are to be left as mass graves as efforts focus on helping the living.
The Red Cross told the BBC that food, shelter and clean water were needed urgently.
More than 1,000 people have died but thousands more are thought to be missing.
Officials in the earthquake-hit city of Padang, Indonesia, have called off the search for survivors.
Global help
A group of British aid agencies are launching a national appeal to raise funds for those affected by the quake - and by Typhoon Ketsana, which caused much destruction in the Philippines and Vietnam last week.
WEST SUMATRA QUAKES
- First quake struck on Wednesday at 1716 local (1016 GMT) under sea north-west of Padang
- Second quake followed on Thursday at 0852 local
In pictures: Extent of destruction
Aid worker’s diary: Visiting clinic
A series of radio and television appeals are to be broadcast in the UK on Tuesday.
The United States is sending aircraft and Navy ships to Indonesia carrying about 45 metric tonnes of relief commodities.
“This includes plastic sheeting, hygiene kits, generators, and this will all be distributed via the Red Cross,” the US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.
US Pacific Command has flown two C-17 military transport aircraft to Padang with material for a field hospital that will treat as many as 400 people a day, he said.
The USS Denver, an amphibious response vessel with helicopters that will fly to the hardest-hit rural areas, is due to arrive in Padang on Thursday.
Reaching villages
The top task is to reach villages which have yet to receive any help.
“I think in the city there is no real concern over an outbreak of disease. I mean the priority in the city is to get the electricity back on line, to get the water working,” said Patrick Fuller, the communications coordinator for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
“But our concern is still getting to people in villages, in the rural areas, who haven’t been reached yet,” he said.
Getting specialist care into Padang is also a focus of aid efforts.
“Basically, I think as more and more of the outlying villages are accessible, more and more of such patients are being sent to this hospital,” said a commander at a Singaporean emergency tent hospital.
Indonesian military helicopters are carrying out food drops to remote areas, delivering instant noodles, blankets, milk and dry food, said officials.
Heavy rain since Sunday and thick wet mud is also making it difficult for aid workers to reach the stricken areas, said Gagah Prakoso, a spokesman for the Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency.
Meanwhile, Hiroaki Sano, head of the Japan Disaster Rescue Team, said international search and rescue teams were winding up operations and preparing to go back home.
There have been no survivors rescued from the rubble since Friday, says the BBC’s Karishma Vaswani in Padang.
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