Kashmir NGOs face unending SOS calls, forewarn of grimmer days ahead
The Hindu
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Unending SOS calls for oxygen cylinders and non-stop ringing of phones for food and medicine at the Valley-based NGOs portray a grimmer picture of the pandemic than the hospitals, where oxygen-supported beds were almost running full with infected people. Bashir Nadwi, chairman of the NGO 'throut, which operates from Srinagar city’s Nawa Kadal area, terms the pandemic “an unprecedented situation” in a place which otherwise is witness to 30 years of conflict. “I am witness to months of street agitations, worked during the 2014 floods and saw the 2005 earthquake but this is more depressing and the situation is much graver,” Mr. Nadwi, who keeps attending SOS every minute, told The Hindu at his Srinagar office.More Related News
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