Mobile Tele-Medicine Unit
will serve Tsunami affected areas and the Tribal areas.
Report from Amritapuri, India.
Today Amma welcomed the AIMS
Hospital’s new "mobile medical unit."
The unit will bring the state-of-the-art medical care of AIMS to
rural areas via its satellite. Dr. Prem Nair, the Medical Director
of AIMS, and Dr. Babu Menon, a doctor working out of the unit, gave
Amma a quick tour of the unit’s facilities. Amma then requested
that all the ashramites chant the peace prayer as she performed
the traditional arati.
The unit, which is as large as a city bus, contains facilities
for X-ray and ECG, as well as a pathology lab. The manufacturing
of the unit was sponsored by Direct Relief International, a U.S.
based NGO that provides aid to strengthen in-country health efforts
around the world.
The satellite-technology is provided by ISRO.
AIMS doctors have already used the vehicle for a three-week-long
medical camp in Karaikudy, Tamil Nadu. It will soon be used to tend
to residents of the tsunami-affected areas of Kerala and the tribal
areas of Palakkad, Wayanad and Idukki on a weekly basis.
Our sincere thanks to Direct Relief International and ISRO for their
valuable contributions.
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