Medical supplies are the need of the hour in Chennai: Rana Daggubati

Just imagine rain water flooding everything around you; broken sewage pipes oozing toxic wastes into that stagnant water; decomposing animal carcasses floating around in that same dirty water... People have no choice but to move around and live around areas which are like that. An epidemic can break out any minute in such situations,��� Rana Daggubati tells us, his voice quivering, as he describes the plight of the flood-affected areas in Chennai and beyond.
Following the first phase of relief ��� which largely revolved around the basic battle of survival against nature���s fury, the city is now in a very tricky phase of recuperation. And while food, clean drinking water or dry clothes are still hard to come by for those who���ve lost everything they had, the real need of the hour is replenishing the fast depleting medical supplies.
���It���s already scary that every day they are discovering new areas which are majorly hit and need immediate help. The conditions are very unhygienic and therefore, infections are spreading easily and quickly. And that���s why we are in dire need of medical supplies,��� adds Rana, who has been coordinating with several teams on the ground involved with relief work and has tirelessly been arranging supplies. ���Even as the city faces the grim reality of a disease outbreak, the relief camps and dispensaries in far-flung areas suffer for the want of even first aid supplies and medications,��� he goes on.
Rana and his team are coordinating with other relief teams from Chennai. Team Siddharth and RJ Balaji, Team Dhanush and Aishwaryaa, Team Vishal, Arya and Karthi and the official Disaster Management Team are receiving supplies based on the priorities at various areas.
It takes hours to load each truck with the supplies Rana has been collecting, but the actor tells us that the requirement in Chennai is so high that once these trucks reach the destinations, the supplies are getting disseminated within minutes.
���We had filled half a 10-tonne capacity truck with medicines and Dhanush tells me it was all emptied in just few minutes. Not just that, even other supplies we send are being used up very quick because the need is very high ��� so it���s crores of people and limited supply of medicines. The demand is higher than the supply,��� says Rana, appealing to ���the people to pitch in with whatever they can���.
What you can do:
1. Make a relief kit ��� Each kit consists of the following 23 items. You can either send as kits or individually:
Two bed sheets, two towels, one saree, one dhothi, one kerosine pump stove, vessel with lid, spatula, two metal tumblers, two plates and other cooking utensils like pans and cookers.
Kitchen kit: 200 gms each of turmeric, corriander, chilli and sambar powders, and salt and sugar, rice ��� three kgs, toor dal ��� 500 gms, tea ��� 100 gms, skimmed milk powder ��� 250 gms, dry red chillies ��� 50 gms, wheat rava ��� 500 gms, cooking oil ��� 200 ml
Other utilities: Two soaps, tooth powder, two candles with match box, a pack of sanitary napkins with two panties, sleeping mat, one mosquito coil packet
2. List of medical supplies needed in huge quantities:
Surgical items: white plaster, bandages, cotton, surgical spirit, Soframycin ointment, 5cc syringes, 2cc syringes, Betadaine ointment
Injections: TT, Diclofenac, B12 (Vitcofol), Paracetamol, Perinorm, Gentamycin, Penicillin, Deryphilline
Adult medicines: Paracetamol 500mg, Amoxicillin 500mg, Norfloxacin 400mg, Levofloxacin 500mg, Metrogyl 400mg, Doxycyline 100mg, BCT (B Complex), Avil 25mg, Cetzine, Ranitidine 150mg, Fefol, Mebex 100mg, Albendazole+Ivermectin, Domperidone, Deriphylline
Paediatric medicines: Paracetamol syrup, Cetzine syrup, Amox syrup, Somperidone syrup
The supplies can be sent to Ramanaidu Film Studios, Jubilee Hills.