KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
In view of ongoing crisis in Kashmir, doctors will remain on duty during Eid-ul-Zuha.
Amid the unrelenting influx of injured in Kashmir hospitals, doctors in a meeting decided not to avail Eid holidays and will remain available in hospitals for sick and wounded.
“At a time when injured are multiplying each passing day, we have decided to be in hospitals on Eid,” the doctors said in a statement. “The decision was taken so that medical services are not hampered at a time when they are needed most.”
The victims of unrest need us, the doctors said, “and need us badly this time”.
“They have hope in us and in no case we will let them down,” the doctors said. “Thousands of persons have been injured during the current unrest and many of them are admitted in various hospitals and some of them are battling for life.”
Doctors have been on toes and have been working tirelessly right from day one of the civil uprising.
“Apart from giving treatment to physical wounds, they have been consoling the traumatized patients and their relatives,” the doctors said. “They have been risking their own lives to save lives.”
We have no reason to celebrate Eid when whole Kashmir is mourning, they said. “How can we celebrate Eid when people are in pain of grief due to the death of their loved ones?”
