Following directives from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Delhi health department will send a specialised team of Senior Resident doctors from the fields of gynaecology, paediatrics and general medicine to flood ravaged Uttarakhand.
Presently only junior doctors and paramedics from Delhi have been deployed at the various hospices in Uttarakhand.
The hospices selected by the health department include Bhagwan Mahavir, Deen Dayal Upadhayay, lok Nayak, Acharya Shree Bhikshu and Rao Tula Ram Memorial.
Ten doctors, four each from gynaecology and paediatrics and two from general medicine, will be sent to Uttarakhand for providing urgent medical aid to patients suffering from water-borne diseases.
A senior official of the Delhi health department said, “We will be sending a letter soon to all medical superintendents of these hospitals, to relieve them of their duties, so that they may be sent to Uttarakhand.”
Senior officials of the health department added that Uttarakhand has made a fresh request for additional specialists in the fields of general medicine, paediatrics and gynaecology and so the request is being processed on a fast track basis.
Most residents of Uttarakhand are suffering from water-borne ailments, viral fever, diarrhoea and mosquito-borne diseases.