{"id":24752,"date":"2020-05-01T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T15:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/18-year-old-girl-dies-gmc-baramulla-orders-burial-as-per-covid-19-protocol\/"},"modified":"2020-05-01T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T15:56:46","slug":"18-year-old-girl-dies-gmc-baramulla-orders-burial-as-per-covid-19-protocol-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24752","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old girl dies, GMC Baramulla orders burial as per Covid-19 protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> An 18-year-old girl with symptoms of novel coronavirus died \u201con arrival\u201d to GMC hospital Baramulla on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While doctors have taken her sample for coronavirus, her body was handed over to the family but asked to strictly follow protocol for Covid-19 patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medical Superintendent GMC Baramulla Dr Syed Masood Bukhari told GNS that the 18-year-old from Khuroo Langate Handwara died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe died on arrival,\u201d he said. On inquiring, he said, \u201cthe girl as per the family had high fever and breathlessness from last ten days and she was taken to Handwara hospital. However, the family thought to take her to GMC Baramulla.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The swab sample of the teenager for coronavirus have been taken and sent for test, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have handed over the body and all measures as are taken for a COVID-19 patient would have to be adhered to,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cWe counseled the family for the importance of conducting last rites strictly as per Covid-19 protocol. We have also informed deputy commissioner Kupwara, as well as BMO, concerned regarding the last rites as per the Covid-19 protocol.\u201d (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: An 18-year-old girl with symptoms of novel coronavirus died \u201con arrival\u201d to GMC hospital Baramulla on Friday. While doctors have taken her sample for coronavirus, her body was handed over to the family but asked to strictly follow protocol for Covid-19 patient. Medical Superintendent GMC Baramulla Dr Syed Masood Bukhari told GNS that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24752","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\/24752","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=24752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752\/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=24752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}