Kochi-based Amrita Hospital rushing medical contingent to help Nepal quake-affected

Kochi-based Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre is rushing a big medical relief team to the quake-hit Nepal.

The mission includes 60 medical specialists, paramedics and volunteers, three mobile medical facilities with Cardiac ICU, Operation theatre, ventilator, two ambulances and adequate medical supplies, which is expected to be airlifted from Kochi to the earthquake-affected Himalayan nation any time now.

The mobile medical facility is equipped with telemedicine unit, Ultra Sonography, X-Ray Radiography, Ventilator, Minor Operation Theatre, Delivery Room facility, Electro Cardiography, Light Microscopy, Digital Photography and Bio Chemical Testing with a semi-auto Analyzer, besides dental care.

The medical specialists are from the departments of Orthopedics, General Medicine, General Surgery, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Gynecology and Radiology.

The patron of the hospital Mata Amritanandamayi has also directed the Math to send 50 tons of wheat, 2,000 sets of warm clothes as immediate aid for survivors of the devastating earthquake.

Mata Amritandamayi Math has been in the forefront of relief to people hit by natural calamities across the country in the past - earthquake-hit Bhuj in 2001, Tsunami victims in 2004 both in Kerala and southern part of Tamil Nadu, Mumbai floods in 2005, Bihar floods in 2008, during West Bengal cyclone Aiyla in 2009, floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (2009), 2013 landslides in Kedarnath and 2014 Kashmir floods.