Dehradun, July 11 -- Uttarakhand Health Department was able to save minimum 750 lives with timely intervention through medical screening and identifying devotees unfit for travelling to high altitude shrines of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath.
Health department officials informed that the intensive screening at different locations on the Chardham routes helped medically unfit pilgrims return home and 37,000 were detected with high-risked comorbidity.
Officials informed that health department screened 10.02 lakh pilgrims in the first two months of the Chardham pilgrimage 2025 that that took off in early May. This number is much higher than 9.5 lakh screening of devotees done for entire Chardham season in 2024.
More than 750...