Staff use makeshift rafts and boats to transport patients and bring painkillers and medicines to those trapped at home
hen the flood water roared into her home in Assam, Jyoti Bora* saw the morphine pills she takes for head and neck cancer swept away along with all her belongings. At the relief camp she was evacuated to, Bora, who uses a wheelchair, found a boat to take her to the hospital to get more medication.
, which began in April and show little significant signs of easing. Entire villages have been submerged. More than 114,000 hectares of crops have been damaged and 5,000 livestock washed away. The army and relief workers are providing food, medicines and drinking water to 780 camps for those displaced by the flooding.
“A patient with multiple myeloma came for her chemotherapy session and she refused to get on to the raft. She was petrified. Fortunately, her chemotherapy was only one hour long, did not need close monitoring or have side-effects, so after checking her vitals, we administered it on the dry patch,” says Tapkire.
Kannan is worried people are missing out on treatment. On a normal day, the OPD has between 150 and 200 patients. In the past week, it has seen only 40 people. “We need to reach out to every patient who has not been able to come.Ranjita Singha, 60, who has cervical cancer, ran out of morphine and was unable to reach her hospital. Her daughter Babita, right, is her main carer.Ranjita Singha, 60, who has cervical cancer, ran out of morphine and was unable to reach the hospital.
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