Kerala temple tragedy: PM Modi meets injured at Kollam hospital

NEW DELHI: The health ministry has sent a team of top doctors, burns specialists and plastic surgeons from the Capital's three leading tertiary care hospitals - AIIMS, Safdarjung Hospital and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital - to assist with medical care of those injured in the fire tragedy in Kollam.The team of doctors, headed by AIIMS director M C Misra, was flown to Kollam with PM Narendra Modi.A senior ministry official said, the team from Delhi includes 10 specialists from Safdarjung Hospital, 11 from AIIMS and five from RML. Apart from burn specialists, plastic surgeons, burns surgeons, technicians, anaesthetists, nurses and paramedics are part of the team. The ministry has also dispatched essential medicines and ointments.