Srinagar: A 65-year-old cancer patient from Nowgam area of Srinagar city along with her four attendants are stranded in Chandigarh since last 15 days amid the covid-19 lockdown. The family has now demanded immediate evacuation for the “safety of their patient who is suffering from a fatal disease.”
According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Manzoor Ahmad, brother of cancer patient said that on February 26 that the patient was admitted at PGI Chandigarh and on March 19. “The patient was operated for 12 hours,” Ahmed said. “On March 30, she was discharged and since then we are stranded here. But nobody is helping us even after repeated requests to government of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory.”
He said that as the condition of their patient is worsening day by day and she is not getting the care which a cancer patient needs, “we demand immediate evacuation to Srinagar.”
“We request government of Jammu and Kashmir especially Lt Governor G C Murmu to kindly intervene and evacuate us from here,” Ahmed told KNO, adding that “we don’t need money or anything but demand permission so that we can reach to home.”
He said that they are ready to cooperate with administration and go for quarantine but want to take patient to home first. “We are even ready to pay fare as well if government will make arrangement of vehicle for us,” Ahmed said and hoped that Srinagar administration would pay heed to their demands at the earliest—(KNO)