Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 27 (ANI): As experts have warned that the third wave of COVID-19 is imminent, a Kashmir-based NGO is all set to fight the virus.
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Published: 03 Jun 2021 12:59 PM BdST
Updated: 03 Jun 2021 12:59 PM BdST A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample from a shepherd girl for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test in Nawroz Baba village in central Kashmir s Budgam district May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
As the coronavirus pandemic began to spread last year, charities in Indian-administered Kashmir lacked a key tool that was available to most others in the country - high-speed mobile internet. );
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The Indian government had instituted an internet shutdown after its decision on Aug 5, 2019 to end Kashmir s semi-autonomous status.
The internet blackout eased in some places last year and by the time high-speed mobile internet was restored statewide on Feb 5, it was the longest shutdown in India s history.
As desperate families go to market, exorbitantly priced oxygen concentrators are making them unaffordable for Covid-19 patients homecare. Now the crisis is that leisure oxygen-generators are being sold for medical oxygen concentrators, reports Saifullah Bashir Mohammad Azan Khan, 30, a resident of.
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SRINAGAR: In view of the covid-19 surge, Kashmir’s leading philanthropic organisation, Athrout, has set up a 100-bed Covid facility in a record three days’ time. Athrout collaborated with the Srinagar administration, and converted the Haj house building into a spacious 100- bed plus Covid facility in Srinagar, almost in tune with a new practice of using religious places like mosques, temples and gurudwaras for rendering services to Corona-afflicted population.
Kashmir’s major charity, the Athrout handing over six high-value ventilators to the management of Chest Disease Hospital in Srinagar in April. The hospital was the first designed Covid-19 Hospital. Pic: Special arrangement