Most of the pilgrims who are still battling for their lives after facing the brunt of natural calamities are also bearing the pain of dehydration, dysentery, vomiting, lung infections, and fractures at different body parts.
The medical team, comprising senior ortho-surgeons, physicians, pediatricians, that were sent to disaster-hit areas of Guptkashi and Gaurikund by the Indian Medical Association, Uttarakhand Chapter, too, faced the brunt of natural calamities.
Considering the plight of the pilgrims and locals, who are stranded along the Kedar valley, the Uttarakhand Chapter of IMA has issued notification to private nursing homes and hospitals to provide free medical assistance to victims.
However, the medical team that returned to the capital city also expressed their concern over the decomposition of bodies at the stretch along Kedar valley. Issuing warning to elderly and children, the doctors lamented that they are more prone to infections due to their fragile immune system.
A total of three medical teams were sent to Guptkashi and Gaurikund for providing free medical and healthcare to those victims who were stranded along the Kedarnath route. The team also provided medical relief to one of the rescued pilgrims who was under the shock with fracture pelvis along with femur perineal tear. The victim was evacuated from Kedarnath.
The medical officers bent down on the floor where she was managed, revived and saved. The applause went up when she spoke out her name nearly after two hours of intensive medical care by the doctors in utmost primitive conditions. The efforts put by the doctors went into vain when one victim died of cardiac arrest at the spot when he was about to air-lifted.Shockingly, one of the medical teams that were sent to Gaurikund, too, faced the brunt of natural calamities and walked nearly 30 kilometers to provide medical relief to victims.
The team comprising IMA State General Secretary, Dr DD Chowdhury, Dr Punit Purohit, Dr Saurabh Mehra along with two para-medics were forced to return to Dehradun as they were left with no foods and potable water. In an exclusive interaction with The Pioneer, Dr RN Singh, State President, Indian Medical Association, Uttarakhand Chapter, said memorandum has been already issued to the private nursing homes and clinics for providing free medical
assistance to victims, who faced the brunt of natural calamities that wrecked havoc in Uttarakhand nearly 10 days ago.After expressing concern that the association received no support from the state government for rescuing and medically assisting the Char Dham victims, Dr Singh said that IMA had managed itself to providing immediate medical relief to patients.
Among the private doctors, who visited the disaster hit areas of kedar valley were Dr Harish Kohli, Dr Rakesh Kalra, Dr Vijay Tyagi, Dr Dr Mayank Jain, Dr Puneet Mittal, Dr Vikrant Pathak, Dr Alok Semwal etc. He said that the association’s doctors are committed to provide medical care to the victims and another team of the medicos would be sent to save the lives of the victims.