Odisha train accident | Team of doctors from AIIMS rushed to provide medical aid to injured

The team is carrying medicines and heavy critical care equipment, sources said

June 04, 2023 09:55 am | Updated June 05, 2023 05:49 pm IST - NEW DELHI

Doctors from AIIMS-Bhubaneswar were earlier dispatched to Balasore and Cuttack in Odisha to assist in the relief operations at the site of the train accident, Mandaviya had said on June 3.  File

Doctors from AIIMS-Bhubaneswar were earlier dispatched to Balasore and Cuttack in Odisha to assist in the relief operations at the site of the train accident, Mandaviya had said on June 3. File | Photo Credit: Reuters

A team of doctors and experts from the AIIMS here and other central hospitals of Delhi have been rushed to Bhubaneswar through a special IAF flight to provide medical assistance to those injured in the deadly Odisha train accident, official sources said on June 4.

The team is carrying medicines and heavy critical care equipment, the sources said.

An infographic depicting how the Odisha train crash may have happened based on the preliminary probe by Indian Railway Ministry.

An infographic depicting how the Odisha train crash may have happened based on the preliminary probe by Indian Railway Ministry.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya is in Odisha and will visit the AIIMS Bhubaneswar and the Cuttack medical college on June 4 to take stock of medical assistance being provided to the victims of the train accident.

Doctors from AIIMS-Bhubaneswar were earlier dispatched to Balasore and Cuttack in Odisha to assist in the relief operations at the site of the train accident, Mandaviya had said on June 3.

The triple train accident has left at least 288 people dead and over 1,100 injured.

The crash involving Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express and Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and a goods train occurred on June 2 near the Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore, about 250 km south of Kolkata and 170 km north of Bhubaneswar.

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