The Kochi-based Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) is sending its disaster management and mobile tele-medicine unit (AMTU) to Kashmir to provide medical care to people affected by the recent floods.
The mobile medical facility is equipped with Colour Echo Cardiography, Gastroscopy, Retinal Camera, Ultra Sonography, X-Ray Radiography, Ventilator, Minor Operation Theatre, Delivery Room facility, Electro Cardiography, Light Microscopy, Digital Photography and Bio Chemical Testing with a semi-auto Analyzer to analyse Hepatitis B, Rat Fever or Leptospirosis, etc.
A team of medical experts from the departments of General Medicine, General Surgery, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Radiology are also accompanying the AMTU. They will provide vaccinations like DPT, Polio, MMR, and Hepatitis B at the relief sites. A team of Veterinary doctors with medicines and vaccinations for animals are also part of the team.
The mobile medical facility was flagged off by Mr. K. Babu, Excise Minister of Kerala, while a consignment of medicine was handed over by Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Shri G.M. Siddeshwara at Kochi this afternoon.
The centrally Air Conditioned AMTU is equipped with satellite-based video conferencing facility. It is also supported by two equipped emergency ambulances with cardiac facilities, trained medical team and adequate medicines. These ambulance can travel to interior places where the AMTU cannot reach.
The output from these devises can be transmitted to a specialty hospital (Typically AIMS) for expert opinion. It has the capability to connect to any health care center that has a Tele Medicine facility. It is also equipped with Amrita Health Information System (AHIS) Tele medicine Suite for electronically storing and transmitting patient data including medical images. Using all these facilities expert doctors can directly see the patient, diagnose the disease and start emergency medical management.
Amrita Institute for Medical Sciences has been in the forefront of rendering free medical care to people hit by natural disasters across the country since 2007. During Bihar flood in 2008, Andhra-Karnataka flood in 2009, Kedarnath (Uttarakhand) landslides in 2013 the Mobile Tele-Medicine Unit alongwith disaster management team had rendered exclusive medical relief services to the affected people. A total 548 medical camps were conducted by the Mobile Tele Medicine Unit of AIMS during the period 2007-2014.
From 2007 onwards Mobile Tele Medicine Unit is rendering free medical services, on the spot investigations and super specialty hospital services during various disaster occasions across the country. During Bihar flood on 2008, Andhra - Karnataka flood on 2009, Utharakhand flood on 2013, the Mobile Tele- Medicine Unit along with disaster management team extended exclusive medical relief services to the needy ailing patients. A total number of 548 medical camps were conducted during 2007 - 2014, which benefitted 2,35,064 patients.
