Under cover of night, ailing try to find way to Srinagar hospitals | India News, The Indian Express

Under cover of night, ailing try to find way to Srinagar hospitals | India News, The Indian Express

Written by Bashaarat Masood, Naveed Iqbal, Adil Akhzer |Srinagar |Updated: August 10, 2019 4:58:33 pm

Under cover of night, ailing try to find way to Srinagar hospitals

The Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) Hospital, usually packed with patients and attendants every night, now receives a trickle. Its corridors and wards are more or less empty and ambulances are stationed outside, in a row.

Shops remain shuttered, and the streets are almost empty barring the security personnel enforcing the prohibitory orders in Kashmir. (Reuters Photo)

This report is a day late. As it has been these past six days with the security lockdown in place across the Valley, and all communication lines downed. Restrictions on movements during the day are stringent and it’s only when darkness descends that people in desperate need of medical assistance try to venture out. The cover of darkness becomes their passage to the city outside the four walls of their homes.