DISASTER MEDICINE UPDATE: AUGUST 2012

Department of Emergency Medicine is happy to announce that a team comprising of Tamorish Kole (HOD,EM), Punidha K ( Attending Consultant) and Asit Mishra ( Chief Resident) is traveling to Hyderabad on invitation to participate in Hospital Medical CBRNe Disaster Training and MOCK DRILL @ Indo American Cancer Institute, Hyderabad on 31st August and 1st September.

Program faculties are as follows

1. Dr Maj Gen JK Bansal (VSM, Chikitsa Ratan), Member, NDMA, New Delhi, Govt of India

2. Prof Dr Ray Powles (CBE MD BSc FRCP FRCPath) Chairman Radiation Disaster European Committee as well as Hemato-Oncologist and BMT specialist, London.

3. Mr K Ganesan, Mr RK Kaul, Scientific Officers, DRDO, Gwalior, Govt of India

4. Dr Anish Banerjee, Emergency and Disaster Specialist, Peerless Hospital, Kolkata.

5. Dr Tamorish Kole, Emergency Specialist, Max Healthcare, New Delhi.

6. Dr Paresh Navalkar and Dr Ajay Desai, Disaster Management Specialists from Lifesupporters Institute of Health Sciences, Mumbai.

7. Dr Pooja Jaggi, Assistant Professor, Mata Sundri College for Women, Delhi University, New Delhi

8. Mr Manish Sharma, Fire Safety Training Institute, NISA, CISF, Hyderabad.

9. AmeriCares India Foundation Faculty – Dr Purvish Parikh, Dr Swati Jha, Dr Seema Peterson, Dr Kinjal Waghela, Mr Anirban Mitra, Mr Neeraj Prasad.

Department is also actively involved in Disaster Medicine in following ways

1. Advisor to formulate National Hospital Code for safety to GOI, NDMA & MOH
2. Ankur Verma PGY3 is in Kokrajhar, Assam to serve the humanitarian crisis along with team of DOCTORS FOR YOU
3. Major contributor to DEMEX 2012.

POST DRILL REPORT WILL BE POSTED ON 2ND SEPTEMBER 2012