Thiruvananthapuram|HL Correspondent
Doctors’s team went to Kerala with Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised for the efforts at medical college hospital at Paravur fireworks mishap.
“We should congratulate the efforts of doctors and the nursing staff here, and the excellent facilities you have at the hospital. 50 surgeries were performed within a day , in an excellent coordination among various hospital departments,” said Dr Maneesh Singhal, plastic surgery head at All-India Institute of Medical Sciences.
The 20-member team from AIIMS, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital are camping in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram.”In fact, the doctors at Kollam district hospital and Thiruvananthapuram medical college are well experienced and they proved that they are capable enough to handle such situations,” said Dr Susha Sagar, additional professor, AIIMS.
The central team also expressed surprise at the excellent liaison between private and government hospitals. “Private hospitals and doctors willing to provide free treatment and helping government hospitals is a rare phenomenon. In Kerala, we really felt how the health sector has achieved rapid strides,” Dr Sagar said.
The doctors and six paramedics received the call to travel with Modi at 9am and they were asked to report at the airport at 10am.
“We saw it as a big opportunity as the Prime Minister himself was leading us in giving specialized treatment to Kerala burn victims. Though we had faced such eventualities earlier, it was a first-time experience to travel with a Prime Minister for crisis management,” said Dr Manoj Jha, burn specialist from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
On survivors, Dr Jha said many patients could develop complications any time as it was not just the burns they are facing. “Several of them have various other complications and they will need more time to recuperate,” he said.
All these doctors, nursing staff and paramedics who were off duty and on leave were asked to report for duty on Sunday soon after the reports of the incident came out. “The doctors and nursing staff stayed at the hospital on Sunday night. Crisis management was at its best,” medical college principal Dr Thomas Mathew said.
Inputs-TNN
