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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

AN ADDITIONAL CENTRAL MEDICAL TEAM LEAVES FOR ANDAMANS
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Press Release
15:44 IST
The Centre is sending an additional team of eight doctors from ICMR and
Directorate General of Health Services to Andaman and Nicobar, today, to
beef up and extend hospital facilities in the islands. This is in addition
to 8 physicians, two public health experts and 20 nurses who were sent to
the islands on Thursday. In Car Nicobar the district hospital has been
operationalised with the help of 25 doctors About 80 doctors and 20 nurses
have been mobilized from Central Govt institutions in the last few days to
attend to patients in the tsunami affected areas. A total of 2171 patients
have been attended to by the Central medical teams in Tamilnadu, Pondicherry
and the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

The Director General of Health Services, Dr S.P.Aggarwal will be going to
the Andaman and Nicobar islands tomorrow to oversee the relief operations.
The Union Heath Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss is personally reviewing the
medical relief operations in Tamilnadu. The situation in the tsunami
affected areas is being closely monitored at the Centre. No outbreak of any
epidemics has been reported by the State authorities. Technical guidelines
on public health measures have been sent to the affected states.

About Rs 40 lakh worth of emergency medical supplies have been sent to
Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar islands. These include typhoid vaccine,
paracetamol, cephalexin, Dizepam, Roxid,, Flagyl etc. In addition 40 MT of
bleaching powder are in various stages of dispatch to the islands. Foldable
patient stretchers face masks and surgical items have also been sent to the
Andaman and Nicobar islands

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