Kurnool Medical College devastated in Handri floods

U Sudhakar Reddy/Kurnool

Kurnool Medical College including quarters of house surgeons and a few wards of Kurnool general hospital which are ravaged by the Handri river floods are yet to become normal to start their regular activities. The power supply to mortuary in Kurnool Medical College was cut off and bodies are putrefying emanating bad odour in the premises.

Medicos who left the hostels on the flood days are reaching one by one to search for the books and notes in the rooms which are soaked in water and slush.

A first year woman medico of the college who came along with her father to the hostel on Thursday could able to find out some books but most of them are damaged. She said that those on ground floor are totally lost.Kurnool General Hospital Superintendent Mr M S R K Prasad said ,”though the college holidays were extended till 20th we cant tell how long it will take to restart te classes. First our priority is to see that all Post Graduates and Interns quarters are cleaned up and to make them fit for inhabitation,”At present Post Graduate doctors working in the hospital are accommodated in a building still under construction and in a seminar hall.The officials are trying to clean up the building having Microbiology and Biochemistry labs in hospital to see that the tests are conducted.The anatomy and physiology labs in the college and the leprosy and psychiatry wards of hospital situated in boothbangla are also submerged in water.“there are specimen bodies in anatomy lab are preserved with chemicals so there will be no big problem for them but we have to use anti fungal agents. We have lost crores o worth of buildings, medical equipment,” said Mr Prasad.

The diarrohea cases are increasing in KGH. “Most of them are mild to moderate cases and there are no casualties so far. We are suspecting the spread of Malaria as the mosquitoes population increased,” he added.Though the central drug stores was also hit by water officials claim that there is no damage.“the power supply to mortuary is yet to be restored. There are five unidentified bodies kept in freezer but there is no power for the past week days. But there is uninterrupted power supply to hospital,” said Prasad.