{"id":21331,"date":"2020-03-19T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T08:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/coronavirus-smhs-hospital-closes-opd\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T08:43:56","slug":"coronavirus-smhs-hospital-closes-opd-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=21331","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: SMHS hospital closes OPD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar, March 19:<\/strong> Authorities on Thursday decided to close OPD section at SMHS hospital here amid growing threat of coronavirus spread in Srinagar where a sexagenarian woman yesterday tested positive, making it the first case of covid-19 in Kashmir Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official sources told GNS that the decision to close Out Patient department (OPD) section at SMHS hospital has been taken to stem the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Principal GMC Srinagar Dr Samia Rashid when contacted by GNS said that she was in a meeting and \u201cwould talk about it later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medical Superintendent SMHS Hospital Dr Nazir Choudhary did not give a clear reply and told GNS that \u201cthe one who visited the hospital was seen.\u201d He dropped the call even as a number of doctors at the hospital confirmed to GNS that the OPD facility was closed in \u201cright earnest to prevent spread of the coronavirus and that people should cooperate.\u201d (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, March 19: Authorities on Thursday decided to close OPD section at SMHS hospital here amid growing threat of coronavirus spread in Srinagar where a sexagenarian woman yesterday tested positive, making it the first case of covid-19 in Kashmir Valley. Official sources told GNS that the decision to close Out Patient department (OPD) section at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}