Cyclone Nargis IMD assessed Nargis as attaining peak 3-minute sustained winds of 165 km/h (105 mph). Around 1200 UTC on 2 May, Cyclone Nargis made landfall in the Ayeyarwady Division of Myanmar at peak strength. The storm gradually weakened as it proceeded east over Myanmar, with its proximity to the Andaman Sea preventing rapid weakening. Its track turned to the northeast due to the approach of a mid-latitude trough to its northwest, passing just north of Yangon with winds of 130 km/h (80 mph). Early on 3 May, the IMD issued its final advisory on the storm. Nargis quickly weakened after turning
Nargis Dutt Foundation has 20 chapters worldwide of which about a dozen are in the United States including at Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Spring, Las Vegas, Houston, Florida, Chicago, New York City, Detroit and Boston. The Nargis Dutt Foundation financed the first fully air-conditioned Intensive care unit at Tata Memorial Hospital, the "Nargis Dutt Intensive Care Unit". It also runs a hospital named, Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Hospital at Barshi in Sholapur District of Maharashtra. In September 2018, Nargis Dutt Foundation along with Grameen Sneh Foundation organized heath camps in remote areas of Bihar to spread the awareness about cancer.