Soon more teams from NDRF 3rd Battalion in Mundali and a squad from Kolkata headed for Bahanaga.ĪLSO READ | Odisha train crash: CBI collects mobile phones of officials The first team of NDRF to reach Bahanaga from Balasore had 30 to 35 members and considering the gravity of the mishap they realised their numbers were simply not enough to carry out search and rescue operations of this magnitude.
The personnel posted in Balasore attended it via video-conferencing,” said an NDRF officer. About 250 personnel engaged in the Bahanaga rescue operation attended the day-long counselling session in Mundali. “As per the standard procedure, a counselling session is organised for the personnel engaged in strenuous operations. The rescuers are expected to get back in shape within two weeks, said Dr Sethi.ĪLSO READ | Odisha train crash: Bahanaga school that became a temporary morgue set to be demolished The experts have advised rescuers to engage in breathing exercises, imagine the views they are fond of and provided them tips related to sleep hygiene. He described how one of the rescuers hallucinated that he was seeing blood while another lost his appetite as they witnessed deaths and victims suffering from excruciating pain. Director General of NDRF Atul Karwal shared the plight of the rescuers and the impact of the incident on their mental health. What we saw was a disaster we were not really anticipating,” recounted an NDRF rescuer. “We were expecting two to three bogies to have derailed. The team moved at 7.50 pm and reached the accident site 40 minutes later at 8.30 pm. Its Balasore unit received information about the accident at about 7.30 pm. The NDRF was among the agencies which carried out rescue and search operations at Bahanaga railway station. A few others revealed they were not able to sleep during the night. Some rescuers faced olfactory hallucination, which makes one detect smells that are really not there in the environment. Some of the rescuers complained of witnessing nightmares, while others revealed that they were experiencing flash images of the screaming passengers and the blood-stained bodies of the victims,” said Dr Sethi. “We carried out a severity assessment of the rescuers to ascertain their PTSD.
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