Srinagar: As curfew and restrictions from various parts of the Valley have been lifted with signs of fragile calms and increasing movement of vehicles on roads, the patient rush in city hospitals has too witnessed an paralle increase.
Only critical care patients and conflict victims had been treated at the city hospitals since July 9, the day after Burhan Wani was killed triggering the current uprising in Kashmir.
Most of the common patients were not able to visit hospitals as most areas continued to remain either under complete curfew or irregular curbs.
With slight improvement in the situation patients have started visiting hospitals.
“I had to come to the hospital in the third week of July but I was not able to see the doctor. But today, we hired an auto rickshaw and reached the hospital,” said a patient from downtown area of Srinagar.
Another patient said, “There is so much of patient rush first time here as people had not been able to visit hospitals during the last over 70 days. I am waiting for my turn since morning.”
At SMHS many people had parked their vehicles on main road due to lack of parking space. The SMHS hospital has witnessed over 70 percent fall in patient inflow since July 9.
An official at the tertiary care general hospital said during first 73 days of the ongoing unrest, less than 700 people used to visit the hospital per day.
Since Monday huge rush is seen in the OPD and in causality wards, he said.
As per the official records, over 890000 patients visited to SMHS hospital’s OPD during 2015-2016.
Principle GMC and its associated hospitals, Dr Kaisar Ahmad said hundreds of injured youth were brought to hospitals during the uprising. “But the patients who had to visit hospitals for routine check-up were not able to reach due to prevailing situation. Now patient inflow has again increased in hospitals for the last few days,” he said. (PTK)
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