The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Tiruchi News : Medical team from Bilaspur rly. division comes to Nagai dt.

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Medical team from Bilaspur rly. division comes to Nagai dt.

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, JAN. 7 . A medical team has come from the Bilaspur railway division, coming under the East Central Railway, to assist the railway doctors treating tsunami-affected victims in the coastal Nagapattinam district.

The 67-member railway team, comprising three senior divisional medical officers, nursing staff, para-medical personnel and civil defence personnel have been asked to station at Tirumullaivasal by the Nagapattinam district administration and treat the people in and around that area.

Already two medical teams from Golden Rock Railway Hospital and one from the St. John Ambulance at Chennai have been providing necessary medical assistance and treating the tsunami victims for over a week now at Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur.

The Divisional Railway sources here told The Hindu that ever since December 26, the day tsunami struck the coastal districts, the railway medical teams had treated around 5,000 persons in Nagapattinam district alone.

This apart, mobile medical teams were also doing rounds in several affected places in Nagapattinam district including Pushpavanam, Kameswaram, Thopputhurai, Nagore and Anayathoppu. Around Rs. two lakh worth medicines had been purchased by the railway authorities and despatched to the affected areas in Nagapattinam.

As nearly 200 families were staying at the Nagapattinam railway station, insecticides were being sprayed liberally in that station to contain any outbreak of epidemic. The sources said a nodal officer from Southern Railway Headquarters, Chennai, had been posted at Tiruvarur to coordinate with the district administration for unloading and handing over the relief materials coming from various parts of the country to Nagapattinam.

The officer is being assisted by seven commercial inspectors from the Tiruchi Railway Division as well as from the headquarters. A bundle containing relief materials despatched by the Eastern Railway Women Welfare Organisation, based at Kolkatta, had reached Nagapattinam a few days ago.

The sources further said the Tiruchi Divisional Railway Manager, D.K. Saraf, had formed a spot purchase committee comprising the Assistant Commercial Manager, Assistant Mechanical Engineer and Assistant Divisional Finance Manager to purchase sufficient numbers of disposable gloves, bedsheets, mats besides kerosene stoves to be handed over to the tsunami victims in Nagapattinam, Cuddalore and Pondicherry.

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