Md Ali, TwoCircles.net,
Patna: Within hours after the terrorist attacks on several places in Mumbai on November 26, a representative team of several Muslim organizations rushed to city hospitals where injured were being taken to in large number and offered their help to doctors and victims.
The team visited four hospitals – J.J, G.T, St. George and Nair Hospital – offered their help to doctors and distributed relief materials among the injured and their families.
About 400 people were injured in the attacks at luxury hotels including Taj Palace hotel and Oberoi and Shivaji railway station and some restaurants. Till 4 pm on November 29, 195 people have been killed. Operations at hotels Taj, Oberoi and Trident and Nariman House have ended.
When the Muslim relief team comprising people from Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Maharashtra, Students Islamic Organisation of India, Movement for Peace and Justice and Ideal Relief Wing reached JJ Hospital at 7 am on November 27 they found scores of injured people there with chaos and panic dominating the scene and senior doctors missing.
Talking to TwoCircles.net Rehan Ansari of Jamaat-e-Islami, who was member of the team, said when they went to JJ hospital no senior doctors were present at the hospital. The juniors were doing the job of providing the urgent first aid to the injured. There were many people still having bullets in their bodies and complaining about pain. The senior doctors came after 9 am, he informed.
He pointed out that the purpose of their visit to all the four hospitals was to provide whatever relief and help they can to the victims.
The team met an injured family at the hospital. Akhilesh and Shushma Yadav were hit by bullet and bleeding. They told them that “it was all very sudden. Bullets hit them in a panic and we were unable to understand what was going on.”
Shushma further said that their 4-years-old child went missing and she is afraid he might have been killed because she has been unable to find him. She requested the team members to find out her son.
This family and many other families were injured because of the firing by the terrorists at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station. Most of the injured there were from other states and were going their home states.
Rehan pointed out that because of the enormity of deaths and killings they were feeling helpless. They asked the doctors present in the hospital if they could do something for them. They requested them to help them with food packets which they were very quick to present.
Rehan said that when they visited the St. George hospital there were no injured but all dead bodies at that time.
There they told the hospital officials that if at all there remain any unclaimed bodies they will be ready to carry out their last rites according to the religion of the victims.
At the GT Hospital they met an injured activist who was hit by a bullet in his efforts to save people. There were many people who were very seriously injured.