Nepal earthquake: 60 students from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh return home
Hyderabad: Sixty students from various districts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have returned safely home from Nepal where they were pursuing their MBBS at the College of Medical Sciences at Bharatpur. Of the 60, nine reached Hyderabad by flight late on Monday night.
They were in Kathmandu on a leisure trip and had got stuck there after the earthquake following which the Indian government flew them back.
The remaining 51 were brought from the college campus in Bharatpur to Gorakhpur in Bihar by road before reaching Delhi by train, in a special bogie, and then to Hyderabad.
The college authorities took care of the students’ travel. Dr Vinayak Pampati, director of the college said on Tuesday that a total of 400 students from India were enrolled in the college, all of whom had returned safely to India.
The college has a staff of about 4,000, mostly Indians. Dr Pampati said that all staff members were still in Bharatpur, to take care of the patients in the hospital and also to tend to the thousands of earthquake affected people visiting the hospital.
The medical college is the only one in Nepal and is owned by Dr Pampati, who hails from Telangana. He is currently at Bharatpur.
He said, "Every day a minimum of 35 people are arriving at the hospital with head injuries. Apart from this there are many orthopedic cases on a daily basis, mostly children. We have developed a makeshift ICU to take care of emergency cases. After the earthquake an open heart surgery and a kidney transplant were also conducted by our doctors."
