Kerala floods: These doctors use FB to reach out to patients in relief camps

Kochi | Sunday | 19th August, 2018

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The situation in relief camps is that there aren’t adequate ways to avail medical assistance. We are trying our bit to make up for the lack of sufficient number of doctors in each camp. Each member in the team spends specified time on this page answering the queries and assisting the patients online who are being housed in the camps. People are finding themselves in a difficult situation and there may be concerns like what to do if a diabetic patient has not had anything to eat or missed medicines for three days,’’ said Aswathy Soman. The service is available also at night.These doctors are doing it in addition to their routine duties..