SRINAGAR – Life continued to remain paralysed as the unprecedented lockdownentered 41st day, on Saturday, in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) withschools, markets and other business centres closed and public transport offthe roads.
Kashmiris defied all restrictions and staged demonstrations against Indiaat several places. Indian troops fired to pellet guns to disperse theprotesters, injuring several.
Communication links including mobile and internet services and TV channelsare snapped in the entire Kashmir valley and areas of Jammu region sinceAugust 5, the day India scrapped Kashmir’s special status.
Lockdown, curfew and communication blockade continue to take a heavy tollon the lives of all residents irrespective of caste, age, gender and creed.They are facing shortage of food stuff, milk, life-saving drugs and othercommodities. According to doctors at Soura hospital, Srinagar, more thansix patients die in the hospital on daily basis specifically due to thelockdown-generated issues.
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Meanwhile, in view of the worsening state of healthcare amid continuedmilitary siege in Occupied Kashmir, a group of doctors in New Delhi haveurged their government to allow them to visit the Kashmir valley to assessthe exact situation in different parts of the valley.
The doctors associated with Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare in aletter to the Indian government said that the reports emanating from thevalley are contradicting the government’s all-is-well claim.