The district health department has set up two safe houses to meet any medical exigency during the visit of President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday.
The safe houses would be set up at the Dehradun airport and GTC helipad. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun, Dr T C Pant said that three teams of doctors have been deployed by the department for the visit of President.
The safe houses would have facilities like operation theatre, cardiac care, Electro Cardio Gram (ECG) and defibrillators. These will also have stock of A positive (A+) blood which is the blood group of the President.
Apart from these safe houses the arrangement at the Intensive care Unit (ICU) of Max Hospital and Himalayan Hospital Jolly Grant has been made. These hospitals have also been asked to keep some beds of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) vacant in case of any emergency. Three teams of the doctors have also been constituted which would be placed at the safe houses and one team would accompany presidential fleet.
These teams would be provided with the medical history of the President. The medical teams are constituted from the doctors, lab technicians and pharmacists drawn from Associated hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC), Dehradun and Himalayan hospital Jollygrant.
The health teams would have services of one Physician, one surgeon and one anaesthetist. One cardiac ambulance with a cardiologist on board would be kept ready for any heart related problem.
On Sunday, top officials of health department, district administration and Rajbhawan gave final touches to the preparations done for the visit of the President.