A female patient, injured in 25 April 2015 earthquake, and her relatives looking at her X-ray in the emergency ward at Kathmandu Bir Hospital. The hospital is one of the busiest in the Nepali capital. Many people have had to stay in beds in the corridors, due to a lack of space on wards. Doctors are working round the clock to provide the best medical help possible under harsh conditions. On 25 April 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Nepal (Gorkha District was the epicentre), causing widespread destruction of property and infrastructure and killing approximately 8,000 people and injuring more than 18,000. Many buildings on the UNESCO World Heritage list were also damaged or destroyed. A second earthquake, considered an aftershock, struck on 13 May 2015, causing further loss of life and property.