{"id":26741,"date":"2020-06-05T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T08:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/opinion-amid-lack-of-health-care-infrastructure-lifting-of-lockdown-may-prove-disastrous-in-kashmir\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T13:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T08:18:28","slug":"opinion-amid-lack-in-health-care-infrastructure-lifting-of-lockdown-may-proves-disastrous-in-kashmir-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26741","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Amid lack of health care infrastructure, lifting of lockdown may prove disastrous in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By: Syed Nashir Ali Gillani<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: As cases of Covid-19 are increasing,so as deaths due to it with each passing day, the decision to lift lockdown from June 8 will not be wise and will prove disastrous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going by the reports,the state is lacking requisite infrastructure and resources to tackle the global pandemic that has claimed nearly 04 lakh lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Union Territory of Jammu &amp; Kashmir has only 180 ventilators for a population of 1.25 crore population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Kashmir alone,for a population of 70 lakh, there are just 93 ventilators in hospitals. Most of them are occupied by the patients suffering from various ailments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spontaneous spread of virus will result in crises,beyond imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur health care system is in poor state. God forbid, if virus spreads in valley, the management of patients will be a difficult task. We are not in a position to deal with any eventuality,\u201d a senior doctor at SKIMS had told to a leading newspaper of Kashmir valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctors continue to suffer because of lack of proper and adequate protection gears and safety equipments like N95 masks,PVC coated gowns, the doctor had added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hence,the government should revisit it\u2019s decision in the larger interest of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it goes with it\u2019s decision, the consequences will be enormous and the responsibility will come on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pertinent to mention, that the health care system of Spain, a developed country collapsed after spontaneous outbreak of virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The patients were treated in open, not only this, the old people offered their ventilators to young people, putting their own lives at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Syed Nashir Ali Gillani Srinagar: As cases of Covid-19 are increasing,so as deaths due to it with each passing day, the decision to lift lockdown from June 8 will not be wise and will prove disastrous. Going by the reports,the state is lacking requisite infrastructure and resources to tackle the global pandemic that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26741","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\/26741","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=26741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}