India COVID crisis: ‘If I don’t work my children will starve’
Al Jazeera
A family in Kashmir, whose members cannot read, have struggled to understand the implications of testing positive.
For Mohammad Ghulam Bhat, 63, who cannot read or write, is completely deaf and can only communicate via sign language, life was already a struggle before the COVID pandemic took hold. He used to support his wife, Rukhsana, 50, three daughters aged 15, 10 and six, and one son, 12, by taking on casual manual labour – when he could find it. These days, due to his age, he relies mostly on begging on the street, bringing in a monthly income of about 3,000 rupees ($41) for the whole family, who reside in a small shack in Hamdanpora in the Kulgam district of Indian-administered Kashmir. But on the morning of April 27, he started to experience a sore throat, breathlessness and fever.
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