On arrival at Gangtok Tuesday afternoon, she drove straight to the Central Manipal Referral Hospital at Tadong and saw the condition of the earthquake victims who are undergoing treatment.
She enquired about the condition of patients undergoing treatment with the doctors attending on them.
Banerjee was accompanied by Union Minister Mukul Roy and Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim P D Rai during the visit.
She later visited Sir Tashi Namgyal Memorial Hospital, STNM to see for herself the condition of the earthquake victims.
She was accompanied by the Secretary, Health Department, Government of Sikkim, Kumar Bhandari.
Meanwhile, in Sikkim, the death toll in the massive earthquake has now risen to fifty three.
The death toll in the worst affected North district alone has risen to forty from yesterday’s figure of twenty four. Relief and rescue operations are continuing on a war footing.
The General Officer Commanding –in- Chief of the Eastern Command of the Army Lieutenant General Bikram Singh called on the Governor and Chief Minister and assured all help in relief and rescue operations in the affected areas.
Briefing the media, Singh said that some five thousand five hundred army personnel are undertaking the relief and rescue work in the State. Three thousand of them are deployed in the North district alone. Besides, two hundred more have reached Mangan by road this morning.
He said thirty army personnel were air dropped at Mangan and twenty five at Chungthang to help in the operations.
Singh said army helicopters have taken thirty critically injured persons to the Army Hospital at Bengdubi near Siliguri in West Bengal which included fourteen civilians.
Describing the situation in the North district beyond Chungthang as 'very bad', he expressed confidence that things will come to normal very soon.
According to Singh, 200 NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) personnel have reached Gangtok while forty have been sent to Mangan.
--IBNS
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