The Health Ministry rushed a three member team of eye specialists from AIIMS in New Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir to assist the state in treating people who have been injured following violent unrest after killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani.
The Union Health Ministry rushed a three member team of eye specialists from AIIMS in New Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir to assist the state in treating people who have been injured following violent unrest after killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani. "Health Minister J P Nadda has directed a three member high level team of eye specialists from AIIMS in New Delhi to be sent to Jammu and Kashmir to assist the state in providing medical care to the persons injured in the on-going law and order problem in the State," an official statement said adding that the team has reached the state.
The move comes after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today urged the Prime Minister to send specialist doctors to the Valley for treating the injured. Nadda has also assured all support to the state government. Violent clashes have erupted following the killing of Wani after which curfew has been imposed in many parts of the valley even as the death toll in clashes between protestors and security forces climbed to 34.
According to reports, hundreds of people have been injured while nearly 100 people have undergone eye surgeries due to excessive use of pellet guns by the security forces to control the protesters. Nadda later tweeted,"We have sent a team of senior eye experts/specialists from AIIMS to J&K to assist the State. The team has reached Srinagar." Earlier in the day, Abdullah said it was the time to reach out to the Valley with a healing touch and had requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to send specialist doctors to the Valley for treating the injured.
"Hon (Honourable) @narendramodi ji. After Kerala fire you carried a plane load of burn specialists with you.Please send eye/trauma specialists to Kashmir," he said. "Please don't let the fact that these youngsters people have been injured in protests stop us from giving the best care possible.Thank you jenab," he said. CPI(M) MLA Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami had also earlier said that the Centre should have dispatched doctors and medicines instead of more troops to Kashmir Valley in the wake of large-scale violence which left 24 dead and over 350 injured, said today.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has sought services of eye surgeons for treating dozens of youth who are in danger of losing their eyesight after getting hit by pellets during protests over the past five days in the Valley."A specialised team of surgeons from New Delhi and other parts of the country are being rushed to Kashmir to take care of the persons injured in ongoing law and order situation and needing super-specialty care," an official spokesman said. He said Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti spoke to Health Minister J P Nadda this morning and requested him to send a specialised team of doctors, including retina surgeons, to Kashmir to take care of the injured who have suffered ophthalmic and other trauma.
"We are expecting these specialised doctors to arrive here today and get down to the job immediately," the spokesman said. He said on the instructions of the Chief Minister, the government is also facilitating shifting of any injured person outside the state, who needs super-specialised treatment in case it is not available locally. Later on Health Minister JP Nadda: “We have sent a team of senior eye experts/specialists from AIIMS to the state of J&K to assist the State. The team has reached Srinagar.”
The SMHS hospital here alone has received more than 100 cases of eye injuries due to pellet guns fired by security forces in the clashes following killing of Hibzul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in an encounter last Friday. According to doctors at SMHS hospital, 107 cases of eye injuries have been reported since Saturday at the hospital. "As many as 87 surgeries have been carried out on these patients. Out of these, eyesight of 40 patients has been restored while we are monitoring other patients," a doctor said.
He said three of the injured persons have lost their eyesight due to pellet injuries and among the injured are three girls, including a nine-year-old Journalists in the Kashmir Valley are facing a tough time covering protest-related violence in which more than 30 people were killed and several others injured, with both people and security forces turning hostile. Kashmiris, who took to streets after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani’s killing, believe that news channels were not showing a true picture of the ground situation in the valley.
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