Covid19 Obits
Kashmir poetess and critic, Dr Taranum Riyaz, died in a Delhi hospital on May 20, 2021. She had contracted Covid19. She died within 41 days of her husband’s Dr Riyaz Punjabi’s death in Delhi.
Covid19 has unleashed its devastation and has decimated families. Almost 41 days after Riyaz Punjabi’s death, his wife Dr Tarannum Riyaz succumbed to the Covid19 infection. A PhD in Urdu, Dr Fareeda Taranum – a former newscaster and a later fellow at Ministry of Culture, is a noted Urdu fiction writer and critic. She was born in Srinagar on August 9, 1963. Ms Taranum has authored eight
Afsana collections, four poetry collections and two novels
The Oxygen Grid
Khalid Bashir Gura goes on an Oxygen audit on the public healthcare setup and identifies the issues that could puncture the pipe
A worker checks the pressure of oxygen tanks at a temporary COVID-19 hospital in Srinagar on Monday, May 10, 2021. Leading NGO, Athrot in partnership with the government set up 100 bedded oxygenated facilities at Hajj House in Srinagar. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
A day after the May 7, government order regulating oxygen supply to private persons, societies, and NGOs without the administration’s prior approval, Zameera Reshi, a resident of Eidgah, was in an absolute panic. His aged uncle and aunt who turned Covid-19 positive complained of breathlessness and simultaneous dip in oxygen saturation. He swiftly sent an SOS and approached many NGOs. After one hour of search, one of the NGOs
As the Covid-19 unleashes its carpet-bomb-morbidity in Kashmir, hundreds of individuals and groups have redoubled their efforts to restrict the possibly colossal costs. They are doing anything and everything and supplementing the efforts of the government as well. Right now, Oxygen and food retains the top slots, reports
Khalid Bashir Gura
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
As the second wave of Covid-19, now being referred to as Covid19-2.0, rages through Kashmir, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO), frontline workers, and volunteers on the ground are gearing up once again to tackle the visibly disastrous consequences. Driven by community concern and lived experiences of crisis management, a number of these groups are providing people oxygen concentrators, cylinders, personal protection equi
by Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: More than 150 employees hailing from Jammu and Kashmir serving in the Union Territory of Ladakh in various Government departments have appealed to the Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, to bring them back as promised before the bifurcation of the er.
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