Team Herald
MARGAO: The 25 people including four doctors and six nurses that had left Goa on 2nd September for Kerala to provide relief for flood affected people in Chengannur district have since then started work there and split up into three camps to assist the most number of people.
The three teams visit villages within a radius of 35 kms of Chengannur depending upon which panchayat calls them and set up a camp in that village to attend to patients. On an average every day around 500 patients are attended to while on one day when the doctors stayed even after dusk they attended to 700 patients.
The teams are assisted by the locals and the 75 ambulances operating in Chengannur district are of immense help said the team members in Kerala.
It may be recalled that 25 member team of Goa Active Form had left Goa headed by Dr Samuel Arwattgi. The drugs they had taken were of great help specially drugs to treat leptosporis as there are many such cases identified.
The Forum is grateful to the government of Goa for making this relief camp possible and particularly North Goa Collector Levinson Martins, AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik and MLA Nilesh Cabral for all the help given by them.
