The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) unit here on Friday reported extensive damage hours after the Category 4 Cyclone Fani made landfall on the Odisha coast wreaking havoc and leaving a trail of destruction. "Extensive damage to structure of AIIMS Bhubaneswar reported. All patients, staff, students safe. Many water tanks have blown off,lighting poles are down, air-conditioners damaged. We have enough supplies, ready to support the state," said Health Secretary Preeti Sudan. In several videos doing rounds on social media, several showed the impact of the powerful gales and heavy rain after Fani hit around 10 a.m. The roof of a building at AIIMS Bhubaneswar was seen being ripped off in one such video clip that was tweeted by the government's media department, villages submerged and trees and electricity poles uprooted. In the other videos posted by Sitangshu Kar, the Director General of the Press Information Bureau, the roof of an undergraduate hostel in the Bhubaneswar AIIMS was seen being blown off. --IANS in (This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<doc-sep>Since morning, many videos have shown the scale of Cyclone Fani's impact in Puri. Highlights "Extensive damage" to structure of AIIMS Bhubaneswar: health secretary AIIMS Bhubaneswar has cancelled Sunday's post-graduate test Over 11 lakh people have been moved to safety in Odisha The roof of a building at AIIMS Bhubaneswar is ripped off in a video clip that was tweeted by the government's media department on Friday, as Cyclone Fani slammed Odisha, leaving three dead, villages submerged and trees and electricity poles uprooted. "Extensive damage to the structure of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, all patients, staff and students safe," Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan was quoted as saying. The premier institute also cancelled its post-graduate test scheduled for Sunday in view of the cyclone. "AIIMS PG exam is scheduled on 5th May. Due to cyclone Fani, AIIMS Delhi is cancelling the exam centre in Bhubaneswar. Another exam will be conducted for students affected by this cancellation as soon as normalcy returns," she was quoted as saying. Several videos showed the impact of powerful gales and heavy rain after Cyclone Fani hit the Odisha coast this morning. In videos posted by Sitanshu Kar, the Director General of the Press Information Bureau, the roof at the undergraduate hostel in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Bhubaneshwar was seen being blown off. "Water tanks have blown off, lightening poles are down, air conditioners damaged. We have enough supplies, ready to support the state," the Health Secretary was quoted as saying by Mr Kar in another tweet. Video clip of a roof being blown off at the undergraduate hostel in AIIMS Bhubaneshwar due to #CycloneFani#Fani#FaniCyclone#FaniUpdatespic.twitter.com/97c5ELQJ46 — Sitanshu Kar (@DG_PIB) May 3, 2019 Many such videos have shown the scale of Cyclone Fani's impact in Puri. To the sound of roaring and howling winds, which moved at the speed of around 200 km per hour, trees swayed wildly - many were uprooted - and rain pummeled buildings in the videos. Three persons were killed; one old man in a shelter died of a heart attack; another person went out in the storm and was crushed by a tree. A 65-year-old woman died of suspected heart attack at a cyclone shelter. Streets were deserted in Puri and Bhubaneswar as the worst storm in 20 years crossed both. Power lines were damaged. Over 11 lakh people have been moved to safety and over 240 medical institutions have been provided with power back-up. Hundreds of ambulances are on standby, officials say. Nearly 160 trains have been called and flights have been stopped from Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose campaign schedule has been reworked because of the cyclone, said at a rally that the "centre stands with people in states facing severe cyclone." Fani is the strongest cyclonic storm since the Super Cyclone of 1999, which left nearly 10,000 dead.<doc-sep>The roof of a building at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhubaneswar blew off as cyclone Fani battered Odisha. In videos posted by Sitanshu Kar, the Director General of the Press Information Bureau, the roof at the undergraduate hostel in AIIMS, Bhubaneswar was seen being blown off. Video clip of a roof being blown off at the undergraduate hostel in AIIMS Bhubaneshwar due to #CycloneFani #Fani #FaniCyclone #FaniUpdates pic.twitter.com/97c5ELQJ46 — Sitanshu Kar (@DG_PIB) May 3, 2019 “Extensive damage to structure of AIIMS Bhubaneswar reported due to #CycloneFani . All patients,staff, students safe.Many water tanks have blown off,lighting poles are down, airconditioners damaged. We have enough supplies, ready to support the state,” the health secretary was quoted as saying. Three people were killed in separate incidents as cyclone Fani battered the Odisha coast on Friday. Packing heavy rain and winds with speeds of up to 175 kmph, cyclonic storm 'Fani' slammed into the Odisha coast Friday morning, uprooting trees and sweeping away thatched huts, as large areas of the seaside pilgrim town of Puri were left submerged. The extremely severe cyclonic storm made landfall at around 8 a.m. in Puri but thanks to enough advance warning, about 11 lakh people had already been evacuated from vulnerable and low-lying areas of at least 11 coastal districts by Thursday. (With inputs from agencies) For in-depth, objective and more importantly balanced journalism, Click here to subscribe to Outlook Magazine<doc-sep>
As Cyclone Fani barrelled into Odisha on Friday, uprooting trees and electric poles, it also caused extensive damage to the building of the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in state capital Bhubaneswar. A video tweeted by the director general of the Press Information Bureau, Sitangshu Kar showed the roof of one of its hostel for undergraduate students being ripped off in the impact of the strong winds. “Video clip of a roof being blown off at the undergraduate hostel in AIIMS Bhubaneshwar due to #CycloneFani #Fani #FaniCyclone #FaniUpdates,” Kar said as he tweeted a four-second video. “Extensive damage to structure of AIIMS Bhubaneswar reported due to #CycloneFani . All patients,staff, students safe.Many water tanks have blown off,lighting poles are down, airconditioners damaged. We have enough supplies, ready to support the state (sic),” Kar also quoted Union health secretary Preeti Sudan as saying. Another video, tweeted by the press arm of the government, showed the impact of Cyclone Fani as trees were seen swaying in strong winds amid heavy rain. A senior Odisha government official said two people were killed as Cyclone Fani slammed into the state earlier in the day with winds gusting at speeds of up to 200 kilometres per hour. “I can confirm two deaths for now. One old man in one of the shelters died because of (a) heart attack. Another person went out in the storm despite our warnings and died because a tree fell on him,” Odisha state special relief commissioner Bishnupada Sethi said while speaking to news agency AFP. Cyclonic storm Fani made landfall in Odisha’s Puri district wreaking havoc on Friday damaging houses, uprooting thousands of trees and electricity poles. The Odisha government has evacuated more than a million people from districts affected by India’s strongest summertime cyclone in the last 43 years and asked people to remain indoors. The India Meteorological Department said Cyclone Fani is expected to weaken with a wind speed of 150-160km per hour and that it will weaken and move north-northeastwards. By evening, it may weaken into a severe cyclonic storm over the extreme northern part of Odisha, it added. The system is then very likely to continue to move north-northeastwards, weaken gradually and emerge into Gangetic West Bengal as a “severe cyclonic storm” by the early morning of May 4. It is very likely to move further north-northeastwards and emerge into Bangladesh on May 4 evening as a cyclonic storm.