NGO Athrout is ready to combat potential 3rd wave of COVID
As experts have warned that the third wave of COVID-19 is imminent, a Kashmir-based NGO is all set to fight the virus.
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As experts have warned that the third wave of COVID-19 is imminent, a Kashmir-based NGO is all set to fight the virus.
>> Reuters Published: 03 Jun 2021 12:59 PM BdST Updated: 03 Jun 2021 12:59 PM BdST A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample from a shepherd girl for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test in Nawroz Baba village in central Kashmir's Budgam district May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Ismail As the coronavirus pandemic began to spread last year, charities in Indian-administered Kashmir lacked a key tool that was available to most others in the country - high-speed mobile internet. "); } The Indian government had instituted an internet shutdown after its decision on Aug 5, 2019 to end Kash...
As desperate families go to market, exorbitantly priced oxygen concentrators are making them unaffordable for Covid-19 patients homecare. Now the crisis is that leisure oxygen-generators are being sold for medical oxygen concentrators, reports Saifullah Bashir Mohammad Azan Khan, 30, a resident of...
Mufti Islah SRINAGAR: In view of the covid-19 surge, Kashmir’s leading philanthropic organisation, Athrout, has set up a 100-bed Covid facility in a record three days’ time. Athrout collaborated with the Srinagar administration, and converted the Haj house building into a spacious 100- bed plus Covid facility in Srinagar, almost in tune with a new practice of using religious places like mosques, temples and gurudwaras for rendering services to Corona-afflicted population. Kashmir’s major charity, the Athrout handing over six high-value ventilators to the management of Chest Disease Hosp...
Highlights The hospital is equipped with 28 beds with high flow oxygen supply It also has 75 beds with oxygen concentrators Srinagar: At a time when there is a huge surge in cases of COVID-19 patients across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the valley hospitals are reeling under tremendous pressure. The Srinagar administration with the help of a charity group has converted the Haj House of Kashmir into a 100-bed COVID-19 hospital. The facility has been well equipped with all the requirements needed in a COVID hospital. Around 28 beds with high flow oxygen capacity of about 15 to 20 ...