For the past week, Amrita Hospital has sent medical teams consisting of doctors, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists to 13 communities in the Alappuzha district. More than 3,600 patients have already been treated in 18 different medical relief camps. Twenty more of these camps will take place in Alappuzha alone.

Another medical team is conducting camps in the Wayanad district with the support of a Mobile Telemedicine Unit. The vehicle is equipped with several emergency facilities including a mini-operation theatre. This team is scheduled to conduct another 25 camps in the hilly areas of North Kerala. Working 24 hours per day, they will remain in service until flooding has abated.

Embracing the World volunteers are also distributing drinking water, bags of food, clothes, blankets and bed sheets to the affected people. Plans for more aid continue as the situation develops.