Health care suffers in J-K as prolonged strike and protests continue.Byline: ANI Srinagar, June 7 (ANI): Patients in Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir: see Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir State (pop., 2001: 10,143,700), northern India. With an area of 39,146 sq mi (101,387 sq km), it occupies the southern portion of the Kashmir region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent and is have been forced to do without essential and life-saving medicines on account of a prolonged shutdown and protests over the alleged rape and murder of two Muslim women by security forces at Shopian. Patients coming to Srinagar said they were not getting essential medicines because of the strike. "We are suffering, not getting essential medicines, so we are facing a lot of problems," said Bashir Ahmad, the relative of a patient. The medical authorities, however said they are providing all services, especially emergency services, with minimal staff. "We are trying that skeletal staff is there so that every section is open OPD OPD Tape symbol showing either the first transaction of the day in a security after a delayed opening or the opening transaction in a security whose price has experienced a large rise or fall from the previous day's closing price. some areas... like ICU ICU intensive care unit. ICU abbr. intensive care unit ICU see intensive care unit. ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and emergency should run. So we are making all the efforts to get the employees to this hospital," Dr. Mir Nazir, the medical superintendent, the G B Pant Cantonment General Hospital. Residents of Sophians allege that two women were abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point , raped and killed by security forces on Friday. The authorities have said the women drowned in a stream. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has ordered a judicial inquiry into the deaths. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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