MUMBAI: A day after
Maharashtra CM
Devendra Fadnavis announced 20-crore assistance for flood relief in
Kerala, medical education minister Girish Mahajan is preparing to leave for the southern state with a team of doctors to provide medical aid to those affected.
Mahajan comes with experience in organising emergency services as he has managed several health camps in Maharashtra. In
Nashik, he organised a camp with 1,000 doctors at which more than 1.5 lakh patients were screened. Subsequently, the patients were operated in Mumbai.
"We have drafted a team of 60 doctors from J J Hospital and Pune's Sasoon Hospital. A truckload of emergency medicines and clothes has already been dispatched," said Mahajan, who will be camping in Kerala for a fortnight to supervise the situation. "The first team will come back after 15 days and it will be replaced by another team of 60 doctors. We will ensure that each person in the shelter camps is attended to and given essential medicines," he said, adding that he is in touch with the Kerala health minister and senior bureaucrats of the medical education department as well as IPS officials.
