Wednesday 25 / December / 2024
New Delhi: The Indian Army has mobilised a field hospital to provide medical aid to the earthquake affected people in Turkey.
Hours after announcement of disaster relief response to earthquake hit in Turkey, the Agra based Army Field Hospital dispatched an 89-member medical team.
The team comprises critical care specialist that include Orthopaedic Surgical Team, General Surgical Specialist Team, Medical Specialist Teams apart from other medical teams. The teams are equipped with X-ray machines, ventilators, oxygen generation plant, cardiac monitors and other equipment so that they can establish a 30-bed medical facility.
A 101-member National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescuers, including five women personnel and a four-member canine squad, will help earthquake-hit Turkey from Tuesday, with a 51-member team landing earlier today at Adana Airport of quake-battered country and the second team of another 50-members on way, said NDRF Director General Atul Karwal.
Led by Commanding Officer Gurminder Singh of NDRF's 2nd Battalion in Kolkata, the whole contingent of 101 rescuers will start their operations in a coordinated way as per directions of the Indian Embassy in Turkey and local authorities. A massive earthquake, 7.8 magnitudes on Richter Scale, ripped through Turkey and Syria on February 6, followed by a series of high magnitute tremors causing houses and high rises reducing to rubble, leaving over 4,000 people dead and rendering scores of men, women and children homeless.
Speaking to ANI, NDRF Director General Atul Karwal said soon after the earthquake, "Government of India decided to render all possible help (to Turkey) in this time of crisis."
