OREANDA-NEWS. Amid fears looming large of an outbreak of epidemic in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, the situation in the state has worsened as more areas have become submerged in flood waters, leaving a trail of death and destruction. DLF Foundation ramped up its efforts to provide relief material, medical staff and medicines. A medical team along with DLF staffers is already there in J&K to assist the flood victims in the affected areas. The Foundation will also be holding medical camps from tomorrow.

"J&K is still a national priority and we will continue to support the victims through the difficult rebuilding period ahead. The people of the state will continue to have a friend and partner in DLF Foundation," said Lt Gen Rajender Singh, the CEO of DLF Foundation.

“We have dispatched a medical team along with a team from DLF Foundation to assist in relief work. Beginning tomorrow, medical camps will be organised by DLF Foundation in the affected areas of J&K,” added LT Gen Singh.

DLF Foundation has directly intervened in the affected areas and contacted the Indian Air Force and the Army and requested them to help transport the Relief Material to the affected families. The Indian Air Force agreed to provide an aircraft to airlift the relief material and more than 12 tonnes of food and relief material was airlifted to the flood affected areas of the valley by a special IAF aircraft from Delhi airport on 12 and 15 September. The Relief Material sent contains food, water, blankets, life saving medicines and hygiene kits.

“Like the first consignment sent on Friday, the second consignment of 6000 kgs (6 tonnes) was sent to Srinagar today carrying relief supplies including food items like biscuits, bread and namkeens, packaged drinking water, milk powder, bread, roasted gram, blanket, torches and hygiene kits, among others,” added Ms Gayatri Paul, Director - Programmes, DLF Foundation.

The DLF Group has always been in the forefront of providing assistance to the affected communities in the times of national calamities. At this moment also the DLF Group has stood by its social commitment and decided to contribute whole heartedly towards the J&K Relief work.

During the Uttarakhand floods, too, DLF Foundation had made generous contributions in cash and kind for the relief and rehabilitation of the victims. All the DLF employees had contributed their one month salary with a matching contribution from the company to the PM Relief Fund. Besides this, their medical teams had also gone to Uttarakhand to provide medical assistance.