In Valley, a new health emergency called barricades

August 27, 2016 10:25

What should have been a routine visit to hospital with his daughter-in-law, Haseena Bano, after she developed labour pain turned into a nightmare for Abdul Rahim Lone on August 21.

There was no technician to conduct the sonography at the local hospital. Doctors told Lone the paramedic had not been able to come to work due to the ongoing curfew, and referred Bano to Srinagar's Lal Ded, the only tertiary-care maternity hospital in valley.

For Lone, a resident of Preng village in Kangan town of central Kashmir, that journey to Srinagar turned out to be "hell'.

"I have lost count of the number of barricades on the road. We were stopped at every barricade, and at each one they (police and paramilitary forces on duty) got into the vehicle to check even as she (Bano) cried in pain," Lone said.

"They let us go, but at many places I was asked to remove the barricade myself. I had to put it back when our ambulance passed."

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