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By Our Staff Reporter
KOCHI, DEC. 30. Two more ships of the Indian Navy set sail for Sri Lanka this evening, carrying a large medical team of Army and Naval personnel and 15 tonnes of relief supplies, including water, blankets and provisions. Both ships carried a Chetak helicopter also. INS Jamuna and INS Sarvekshak, the survey vessels of the Southern Naval Command, left the Naval Base here at 8 p.m. today. INS Jamuna has been converted into a 46-bed hospital ship. It has facilities to treat 60 patients, said Captain K. Muralidharan Nair, Commanding Officer of INS Jamuna. The ship carried a mobile surgical team, mobile laboratory and X-ray facility, apart from 6,000 kg of medicines. The ships carried 80 Army personnel from the corps of Engineers, Medical and Signals. These teams will support specialised relief and clearing-up operations.
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