Similar scenes could be seen at the mortuary, where several students and social workers were witnessed assisting professionals.
SMS Hospital has announced free medical treatment and medicine for the victims. Dr Ashok Panagariya, Dean of the SMS Medical College, said the hospital was able to deal with the injured in the immediate aftermath of the serial blasts as it had put its emergency plan into action.
“We deployed all our senior doctors and faculty members on duty along with the other staff. This was the reason that we were able to operate upon 24 patients within the first three hours of the incident,” he said.