{"id":29087,"date":"2020-07-01T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29087"},"modified":"2020-07-01T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:26:03","slug":"young-law-student-abrar-reyaz-loses-his-life-in-covid-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29087","title":{"rendered":"Young Law student Abrar Reyaz loses his life to Covid protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Abrar Reyaz with severe head injury was shifted from SMHS to Chest Diseases hospital, which does not even have a trauma ward, because \u2018no bed was available\u2019 at the other Covid hospital<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n

By: Kashmir Reader<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Abrar Reyaz | Photo Source: Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Srinagar<\/strong>: \u201cWhat has a patient with head trauma injury got to do at a Chest Disease Hospital?\u201d, <\/em><\/strong>questioned Sibtain Hyder, a youth from Srinagar as the news of the tragic death of Abrar Reyaz, a 24-year-old from Shopian district who was studying law in Srinagar, broke on social media Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Abrar, who was pursuing LLB at Central University of Kashmir, met with an accident along with his father and uncle on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Galandar on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

His uncle succumbed on the way to hospital while Abrar was shifted to SMHS Hospital in Srinagar with severe brain haemorrhage and immediately put on a ventilator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He passed away on Tuesday afternoon at Chest Diseases Hospital Srinagar where he was shifted a day before, as the hospital authorities declared him a COVID-19 patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

But Abrar\u2019s close relatives have alleged that the test reports were swapped with another patient\u2019s and Abrar had no COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

A close relative said that Abrar had been unnecessarily shifted to CD Hospital based on a dubious report, and no consideration was given to his serious head injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He said that Abrar had been showing \u201cConsiderable Improvement<\/em>\u201d at SMHS Hospital and should have been treated there instead of being shifted to Chest Disease Hospital, which is an exclusive facility for patients with respiratory ailments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Chest Disease Hospital, one of Abrar\u2019s friends said, does not even have a specialist doctor to treat trauma patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Raja Ishfaq Lateef, one of Abrar\u2019s friends, accused the hospital authorities at SMHS Hospital of \u201cMurder<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is sheer negligence for which the doctors should be booked<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal of Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar, Dr Samia Rashid, reasoned that they \u201cCould not keep a COVID-19 positive patient with negative patients<\/em><\/strong>\u201d at the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

She said that Abrar\u2019s Covid report came positive and they wanted to shift him to the Surgery Department at SKIMS Soura \u201cbut they did not have a bed<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConsidering that he had tested COVID-19 positive, we shifted him to CD Hospital<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d she said.
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The GMC Principal also refuted allegations that Abrar\u2019s Covid test report had been swapped or mixed with some other patient\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

With inputs from Kashmir Reader<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abrar Reyaz with severe head injury was shifted from SMHS to Chest Diseases hospital, which does not even have a trauma ward, because \u2018no bed was available\u2019 at the other Covid hospital By: Kashmir Reader Srinagar: \u201cWhat has a patient with head trauma injury got to do at a Chest Disease Hospital?\u201d, questioned Sibtain Hyder, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29087","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\/29087","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=29087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087\/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=29087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}