"My mom and my dad are both dead, I was brought here on Saturday ... I do not remember anything," Rahele Moradi Pour, a 10-year-old patient admitted to Milad Hospital with her twin sister, told AFP.

"People, have been nice to us, they have brought us gifts, sweets, even money, the hospital staff are also very nice to us," she said, chewing very fast on her gum to hide her emotions.

"But I want my parents back," she said, blankly staring at the gifts next to her bed.

Asked if other members of her family had survived, she pointed to the opposite bed, where her twin sister Ahdiyeh starred into oblivion, her food lying untouched next to get well cards.

Rahele, dressed in yellow hospital clothes and rubbing her broken left arm, said: "I wish we were hospitalized in one of Kerman's hospitals," which would have been closer to her home.

"They are still in shock, they scream at night and call out people's name," the head nurse of the day care ward, Parisa Baii, said.

"We are nursing people like the Moradi Pour twins at the hospital mosque, we are waiting for the government to decide their fate," she added, tears in her eyes.

"We are trying to help them psychologically," she added.

"People are flooding the hospitals, bringing anything they think might be needed," the nurse also said.

"I am here to personally give money," said Masoud, an affluent Tehrani of Kerman origin, who carried a brown bag full of money.

"Of course, this does not mean that I do not trust the relief agencies, but I am speeding up the procedure," he added.

The bodies of 25,000 people killed in Friday's earthquake in and around Bam, in southeastern Iran, have been buried, while some 12,500 injured have been flown to different cities.

The death toll currently rests at about 30,000.

On Saturday, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, in an address to the nation, ordered all provincial governors to take in the injured and "house them for as long as necessary, even after their recovery".

The head of the Bam Victims Operation of Milad Hospital, Dr Sirous Tabesh said: "There are around 60 nurses and nine specialists working long and hectic shifts to help the victims."

"We have cancelled all leave and more staff are added for each working shifts," he said.

"There are currently about 150 injured Bam victims here," he added.

There are very strict and lengthy procedures for adoption in the Islamic republic, but this has not stopped many Iranians from asking to adopt orphans from the Bam quake.

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