MEDICAL CARE HIT
Due to the COVID-19 threat, health care system in Kashmir valley has been badly hit and it is showing a visible impact on the patients. In the recent ten days two pregnant women died in South Kashmir due to the fears in the doctors and paramedics that every patient and attendant visiting the hospitals can carry COVID-19 infection.
This coronavirus paranoia is seriously impacting the lives of people especially those patients who are in need of critical care and also the maternity patients in the rural areas Kashmir.
While the families of the victims have blamed doctors for medical negligence as the cause of their death, but the fact remains that doctors and paramedical staff in Kashmir are still lacking proper PPE’s and other equipment to carry on their professional duties, amid growing cases of coronavirus around them.
Deputy Commissioner of Anantnag has even announced the judgment before probe as he said in a tweet that her body was taken away by the family without completing the formalities because they feared that they might have to wait long for the burial if her sample was taken for COVID-19 testing.
Few days’ back a pregnant woman came to a maternity center from government declared COVID-19 red zone. She was reportedly not give any medical treatment and subsequently she died after delivering two still born babies.
According to officials her COVID-19 test was positive, forcing the doctors and other staff to go for quarantine. In both the cases the families of the victims have claimed that they died only because of medical negligence.
