For the past two weeks, Mohamad Shafi has been at the bedside of his 13-year-old son Rafi, who has been admitted to the nephrology ward of a state-run hospital in Indian-occupied Kashnir’s main city of Srinagar.<\/p>\n
Rafi suffers from a chronic kidney ailment and needs dialysis every 15 days, a medical procedure that cannot be done at his village in Tangdar area of Kupwara.<\/p>\n
Kupwara is\u00a0 close to the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border that divides the disputed Kashmir territory between India\u00a0 and Pakistan.<\/p>\n
“We can’t go anywhere for now. My son needs medical care which isn’t available in Tangdar. So we are planning to stay at the hospital until the situation improves,” Shafi said.<\/p>\n
The military lockdown and communications blackout imposed by the Indian government following the revocation of the region’s autonomy last month has crippled life in the Muslim-majority Kashmir region.<\/p>\n
The unprecedented siege, which entered its second month on Thursday, has severely affected patients in need of urgent medical attention and better facilities.<\/p>\n
Thousands of patients scrambling for medicines, doctors unable to work due to blackout and hospitals running out of resources.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, patients are supposed to buy the medicine needed for dialysis from outside the hospital. Amid the lockdown, the medicine is not always available at the nearby pharmacies.<\/p>\n
A medical staff member at SKIMS hospital, who did not want to be identified, told that many patients at the hospital have run out of money to buy the critical medicines.<\/p>\n
“We don’t provide them any medicines. They have to buy them from retail stores outside the hospital and many of them come from far-flung areas,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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