Three safe houses with all medical facilities to meet any emergency situation would be set up during Rishikesh visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. Apart from it team of doctors would be kept ready at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh and Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT), Jolly Grant.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to visit ailing Swami Dayanand Sarawati at his Ashram located at Sheeshamjhari in Rishikesh.
The safe houses would be set up at SPS Hospital Rishikesh, helipad at Indian Drug and Pharmaceuticals limited (IDPl) campus and Dayanand Saraswati ashram Sheeshamjhari.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun Dr SP Agarwal told The Pioneer that two teams of doctors from Dehradun and one from Rishikesh would be deployed for the visit of the PM. He said that the safe house would have facilities like Operation Theatre, cardiac care, ECG and defibrillators. These teams would be provided with the medical history of the Prime Minister.
A medical team would be part of the Prime Minister’s motorcade during his visit. This mobile team would be manned by the medical personnel of Doon hospital.
The team includes Senior Physician Dr Mukesh Sundrayal, Senior Surgeon Dr RCS Rawat, Senior Anesthetist Dr Ajay Kumar Gairolla, Pharmacist Manoj Rawat and laboratory technician Jitendra Rawat .
The Principal Medical Superintendent (PMS) of hospital Dr RS Aswal has directed cardiologist Dr KB Joshi to cross check equipment of cardiac care ambulance.
However, as a precautionary measure the medical health department has not deployed any nursing staff in the medical teams for Prime Minister’s visit as the association of nurses has given an indefinite strike call from Thursday.
The nurses are usually deployed in the safe houses during the VIP visit.
The officials of health department said that paramedics are deployed in the medical teams for Prime Minister’s visit.