Bhubaneswar: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has deputed a team of four-member medical team to Puducherry for treatment of eminent writer of Odisha Manoj Das.
The Centre sent the team of experts on the request of Union minister Pratap Sarangi. In a series of tweets on Saturday, Sarangi thanked Harsh Vardhan for sending medical team from Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) for treatment of Das.
The team will make a medical assessment and the line of treatment of the litterateur who is now staying in Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry.
The Union Health Minister has assured that the team will take all possible care of Das. Expressing his gratefulness to Vardhan, Sarangi said the he would pray for good health of one of the great sons of Odisha.