A day after the May 7, government order regulating oxygen supply to private persons, societies, and NGOs without the administration’s prior approval, Zameera Reshi, a resident of Eidgah, was in an absolute panic. His aged uncle and aunt who turned Covid-19 positive complained of breathlessness and simultaneous dip in oxygen saturation. He swiftly sent an SOS and approached many NGOs. After one hour of search, one of the NGOs Aab-e-Rawan delivered oxygen cylinders to him. Reshi utilized the services of social media and has become one of the countless cases that Twitter and Facebook have catalogued as people desperate for oxygen cylinders to concentrators.
On Oxygen-abundant earth, it is strange that free air has become a prized commodity. “To be very honest, the charity that would normally go within or outside Ramzan from Kashmir homes would go to feed the poor and the underprivileged,” one uptown Srinagar, resident said. “This time, I saw people assessing if they should prefer groups working to provide Oxygen or food. People do believe that low rations will not kill but low oxygen can result in death.”
There were at least two instances in which, Kashmir was saved from the gruesome Goa moment. When the newly set-up oxygen generation plants at Srinagar’s JLNM and south Kashmir’s Anantnag developed technical snag for a few minutes, hundreds of Covid-19 patients were literally left breathless and narrowly escaped death. In these two separate instances, around 150 patients surviving on high flow oxygen were involved.
This story is from the May 16, 2021 edition of Kashmir Life.
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