Food shortage, patients stuck
Human crisis have struck Kashmir Valley areas, particularly summer capital Srinagar, as nonstop curfew remained in force for the fourth-straight day on Friday.
While Srinagar is reeling under strict curfew since Tuesday evening forcing its 1.5 million population indoors, many residents contacted on phone complained they have e
xhausted or are running short of essential supplies particularly food items, medicines and baby milk and are not even being allowed to take the sick persons to hospital. [Official sources here said that curfew may be lifted for the night to enable the people to attend the congregational prayers in mosques and other places of worship to mark Meraj al-Aalam or Prophet Muhammad’s ascension to the Heaven]
A visit to Srinagar’s Lala Ded Women’s Hospital by our staff photographer on Friday afternoon after he was issued a fresh curfew pass by the district magistrate revealed that dozens of visitors, mainly women have been stranded there. Though several patients were discharged by doctors during past three days, they as well as their attendants could not return home because of the restrictions. Ambulances refused to carry them to home as the hospital authorities thought it “risky” in absence of curfew passes with the passengers. A woman was standing at the main entrance to the hospital with her newly-born baby waiting for help.
Doctors at two Srinagar hospitals said they treated three patients on Thursday who gave birth to dead foetus as they could not been shifted there on time or given necessary medical support.
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