By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: More than 100 Medical Teams with paramedical staff alongwith medicines mobilized to the accident site for medical treatment. More than 200 Ambulances engaged in shifting to hospitals.Food and drinking water arranged for stranded passengers at various stations.
30 buses engaged for stranded passengers for movement.1,175 injured persons shifted to hospitals at Soro, Balasore, Bhadrak & Cuttack and out of the injured, many had discharged from hospitals.Free medical treatment to injured persons at Govt & Private hospitals. CM Naveen Patnaik has announced free bus service to Kolkata from Puri, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack from today till restoration of normal train service in Balasore route. The entire cost will be met from CMRF.
Balasore Train Accident – update
No of human casualty: 275
No of person injured: 1175
No of patients treated: 1175
No of patients released after treatment: 336
No of patients undergoing treatment: 382
No of bodies handed over to NoK: 88