3,199 staff, 72 medical camps and 78 ambulances deployed for Medaram Jatara

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With 3,199 staff, including 544 doctors, deployed crossed 3 hospitals and 72 aesculapian camps, the Health Department has enactment successful spot extended arrangements for the Sammakka-Saralamma Jatara. A full of 38 ambulances and 40 motorcycle ambulances, person besides been stationed to grip emergencies during the four-day tribal festival.

At a reappraisal gathering held connected Tuesday, Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha directed officials to guarantee broad and uninterrupted aesculapian services for the lakhs of devotees expected to be the fair. He instructed the section to instrumentality stringent measures truthful that pilgrims bash not look immoderate aesculapian difficulties and ordered the deployment of specializer doctors to the 50-bed hospital, mini-hospitals and cardinal aesculapian camps acceptable up adjacent the fairgrounds.

The Minister reviewed arrangements astatine the 3 hospitals and 30 aesculapian camps established astatine the main venue, arsenic good arsenic the 42 further camps acceptable up on the main roads starring to Medaram.

A 50-bed infirmary has been acceptable up adjacent the beatified platforms astatine Medaram, a six-bed infirmary astatine Jampanna Vagu and different mini-hospital astatine the English mean school, each staffed with specializer doctors. So far, 11,625 radical person availed aesculapian services astatine the fair, officials said.

To guarantee swift effect successful emergencies, the Minister directed that some four-wheeler and two-wheeler ambulances stay disposable circular the timepiece and that patients beryllium shifted wrong minutes erstwhile required. He besides instructed that Mulugu Government General Hospital (GGH) and MGM Hospital successful Warangal relation arsenic referral hospitals, with doctors and unit remaining connected precocious alert 24 hours a time to grip superior cases.

Tge curate further called for strict surveillance of nutrient stalls astatine the just and ordered enactment against vendors selling substandard nutrient items. He directed officials to erect signboards displaying the locations and details of hospitals and aesculapian camps crossed the just country to assistance devotees entree aesculapian assistance easily.

Published - January 27, 2026 11:31 p.m. IST

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