Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Jammu & Kashmir
40 infants die
Thursday, September 11th, 2014 6:21:52 PM
RK News
Srinagar: At least 40 infants have died in GP Pant hospital at Sonwar are of Srinagar.
However, other patients were air lifted to SKIMS Hospital Soura which has again started functioning but is in dire need of medical supplies.
However, despite repeated attempts no official could be reached for their comments.
http://www.risingkashmir.com/40-infants-die/
At Srinagar Children's Hospital, the Immense Tragedy of 11 Babies
All India | Barkha Dutt | Updated: September 12, 2014 19:04 IST
SRINAGAR: A tiny slipper, a doll whose worn edges prove once-zealous attention, a half-eaten meal on a steel tray, strewn syringes - follow this trail and it ends at smashed glass windows, through which children and their care-givers rushed out as the water - endless amounts of it - poured into the GB Pant Hospital in Srinagar.
This is Kashmir's main children's medical centre. In the first 24 hours after the state was pulverized by floods, seven infants died at the hospital, most of them barely a few days old, after the electricity was knocked out, ending the crucial support offered by ventilators. The next day, another four babies died, the heart-wrenching tiny casualties of an extreme natural disaster.
Today, six days later, the hospital remains without electricity. The only way to get to it is by boat from the Army's Badami Bagh cantonment, the main base in Srinagar. The soldiers on the boat navigate submerged cars, meshes of wires, the concrete slabs that were lopped off buildings.
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http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/a...-of-11-babies-590823?pfrom=home-lateststories
Children Hospital Looks Like A Haunted House
Published: September 13, 2014 0 comments
Srinagar: Most of the hospitals in Kashmir valley have suffered maximum damage in the floods. Valleys main children?s hospitals GB Pant is worst hit and it looks like a haunted house. Reports say at least 11 infants died,
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http://www.kashmirobserver.net/news/top-news/children-hospital-looks-haunted-house
40 infants die
Thursday, September 11th, 2014 6:21:52 PM
RK News
Srinagar: At least 40 infants have died in GP Pant hospital at Sonwar are of Srinagar.
However, other patients were air lifted to SKIMS Hospital Soura which has again started functioning but is in dire need of medical supplies.
However, despite repeated attempts no official could be reached for their comments.
http://www.risingkashmir.com/40-infants-die/
At Srinagar Children's Hospital, the Immense Tragedy of 11 Babies
All India | Barkha Dutt | Updated: September 12, 2014 19:04 IST
SRINAGAR: A tiny slipper, a doll whose worn edges prove once-zealous attention, a half-eaten meal on a steel tray, strewn syringes - follow this trail and it ends at smashed glass windows, through which children and their care-givers rushed out as the water - endless amounts of it - poured into the GB Pant Hospital in Srinagar.
This is Kashmir's main children's medical centre. In the first 24 hours after the state was pulverized by floods, seven infants died at the hospital, most of them barely a few days old, after the electricity was knocked out, ending the crucial support offered by ventilators. The next day, another four babies died, the heart-wrenching tiny casualties of an extreme natural disaster.
Today, six days later, the hospital remains without electricity. The only way to get to it is by boat from the Army's Badami Bagh cantonment, the main base in Srinagar. The soldiers on the boat navigate submerged cars, meshes of wires, the concrete slabs that were lopped off buildings.
...
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/a...-of-11-babies-590823?pfrom=home-lateststories
Children Hospital Looks Like A Haunted House
Published: September 13, 2014 0 comments
Srinagar: Most of the hospitals in Kashmir valley have suffered maximum damage in the floods. Valleys main children?s hospitals GB Pant is worst hit and it looks like a haunted house. Reports say at least 11 infants died,
...
http://www.kashmirobserver.net/news/top-news/children-hospital-looks-haunted-house