Army has treated 53,082 flood victims in Jammu and Kashmir, where 80 medical teams of the Armed Forces Medical Services are already operating in full swing.
So far 2.26 lakh people have been rescued from flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir and the armed forces have till now treated at least 53,082 patients, army officicals said.
As many as 80 medical teams of the Armed Forces Medical Services are already operating in full swing, officials said, adding, that four Army Field Hospitals have been established in Avantipur, Pattan, Anantnag and Old Airfield where medical aid is being provided to the ailing people.
Two additional fully-equipped field hospitals with laboratory testing equipment facility have also been established in Srinagar, they added.
One rapid action medical team from Air Force has been deployed at Avantipur and Srinagar, they said,
adding that this team has provided medical aid to 2,684 patients.
Meanwhile, for the people of this hamlet situated barely a few kilometres from Jammu, it is the Army which came as a saviour after the flash floods in river Tawi ravaged their homes.
Shammi Kumar, who along with his six family members is staying at a camp set up by Army at a government school for past one week, says, ‘My house was washed away in the flash floods in Tawi river last week.