Sunday, September 14, 2008

Bihar Flood Relief-Phase II

Phase II: Relief Operations
1. In this phase Doctors for you will be concentrating on providing medicos and medicines to various organizations engaged in setting up r
elief camp in Kahgaria district.

2. Dr. Robert Montana, US trained Emergency Medicine Practitioner with experience of relief operations worldwide, is helping Doctors for you in planning of this phase. Presently he is in Madhepura district assessing the requirement.

3. Doctors for you will be sending a team of 50 doctors to
Khagaria district starting from this week. These doctors will have their base camp at Khagariya near Mansi station and will work with the relief camps in surrounding areas.

4. We will be mobilizing additional medicine worth Rs 25lacs which would be dispensed through these camps.

5. We will be also advising other relief camps/agencies on the safe disposal of animal carcass (maj
or source of epidemic in post disaster situations) and on the provisions of safe drinking water. We have also sent doctors for this specific purpose.

6. We have also taken approval from various authorities of Medical Associations to send the interns to Bihar.

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