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The Centre is sending an additional team of eight doctors from ICMR and Directorate General of Health Services to Andaman and Nicobar, today, to beef up and extend hospital facilities in the islands. This is in addition to 8 physicians, two public health experts and 20 nurses who were sent to the islands on Thursday. In Car Nicobar the district hospital has been operationalised with the help of 25 doctors About 80 doctors and 20 nurses have been mobilized from Central Govt institutions in the last few days to attend to patients in the tsunami affected areas. A total of 2171 patients have been attended to by the Central medical teams in Tamilnadu, Pondicherry and the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
The Director General of Health Services, Dr S.P.Aggarwal will be going to the Andaman and Nicobar islands tomorrow to oversee the relief operations. The Union Heath Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss is personally reviewing the medical relief operations in Tamilnadu. The situation in the tsunami affected areas is being closely monitored at the Centre. No outbreak of any epidemics has been reported by the State authorities. Technical guidelines on public health measures have been sent to the affected states.
About Rs 40 lakh worth of emergency medical supplies have been sent to Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar islands. These include typhoid vaccine, paracetamol, cephalexin, Dizepam, Roxid,, Flagyl etc. In addition 40 MT of bleaching powder are in various stages of dispatch to the islands. Foldable patient stretchers face masks and surgical items have also been sent to the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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