Fayaz Ahmad Paul
We did not use the ‘lull period’ to prepare ourselves. The window of opportunity of a few months was clearly wasted and the results are very obvious in the form of the extreme shortage of hospital beds, oxygen, pharmaceutical agents, trained healthcare staff, etc.
Pandemic 2019 is ongoing for more than 15 months and now India is facing the second wave. The jump in the number of cases being reported, and possibly some change in the disease profile, has seriously challenged the available infrastructure to a breaking point. The adverse impact on the quality of care is being reflected in the outcomes.
In the last more than a year, the people picked enough knowledge about the virulent and vile virus that it helped them to live in peace with the invisible despite mounting costs, reports Syed Samreen From deserted roads to busy marketplaces, from using hand sanitisers religiously to using them once.
SRINAGAR: The clamour in Pir Panchal valley over the early reopening of the Mughal Road has clear desperation – medical emergencies.
This is the Poonch side of the breathtaking Mughal Road as captured from Pir Ki Gali. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
As the cries for re-opening got shriller, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha announced that the road will be open for fruit trucks and Gujjar and Bakerwals, who moved their herds for their summer sojourn to Kashmir, early spring. There was a rider; those using the road will have to seek permission from the Divisional Commissioner in Jammu.
Mughal Road to open for movement of Fruit trucks, Gujjar-Bakerwals.
Five Kashmir Oxygen Plants Taken To Jammu, Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times reported in a sensational report.
A medical oxygen plant being thrown open in a Jammu hospital. Pic: DIPR
Kashmir and Jammu divisions were allotted Rs 125 crore each to acquire 37 pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen units for each division by March 31. Kashmir was able to acquire some of the units amid the surging coronavirus cases, while the supply order in Jammu got delayed till May 7 owing to the failure of the commencement of the contract with their supplier.
The newspaper quoted an official saying: “Of the 37 oxygen plants required for Kashmir, we have so far acquired 20 units, but could only install 17 here as three were installed in Jammu.”
by Bilal Bahadur SRINAGAR: It was in the afternoon that somebody from Bhishamber Nagar rang me up saying that a dhabaywalla died of Covid19. I rushed to the Shamshanghat in Batamaloo where a number of shopkeepers were there. They said the particular person was basically from Udhampur.