KALPETTA: The family members of the three Malayali medical students, who had gone missing in Nepal since the high-intensity quake rocked the Himalayan country on Saturday morning, confirmed on Sunday that the trio was safe.
Dr A S Irshad from Kasargod and Dr Abin Soori from Vadakara and Dr Deepak Thomas from Kannur, who were working on ad hoc basis at the Primary Health Centre at Edavaka and the District Hospital in Mananthavady, were on a trip to Nepal when the tremors jolted the country.
According to their family members, repeated efforts to contact them over mobile phones had gone futile till Sunday afternoon.
However, as per the information provided by the officials at the control room set up at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi on Sunday evening, the three have been admitted to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj with minor injuries.
Abin was the first one to be rescued from the ruins of the Budget Multiplex Hotel in Kathmandu in which they were staying. He contacted his family in Vadakara on Sunday morning and informed that he sustained leg and head injuries in the incident. However, he had no information on the other two then.
“Abin told us that he was inside the hotel room while Deepak and Irshad were sitting in the corridor when the quake hit the area.
“They were staying in the sixth floor of the 10-storey building which collapsed in the earthquake,” said Abin’s mother Anitha Kumari.
“We have contacted officials in Nepal and New Delhi to make arrangements to bring them back. They are expected to reach New Delhi by Monday morning,” she added.
According to their colleagues, the three started off their journey on April 21. They went to Nepal after visiting Bengaluru and New Delhi.