The Health department of Kerala has prepared a district-level action plan to ensure health services during the Attukal Pongala and begun to implement it, Minister for Health Veena George has said.
Elaborate arrangements have been made by the Health department keeping in mind that thousands, including children and elderly women, come to offer Pongala, the Minister said in a statement.
The department’s 10 medical teams, including ambulances, will be deployed at various places from Saturday till the end of Pongala when the faithful return home.