On November 20early morning, a large number of vehicles were en route to Chrar-e-Sharief, a place which is home to one of Kashmir’s holiest shrines. In between the sirens and speed, there was silence. The destination was the home of Mudasir Ali’, one of Kashmir’s finest reporters who died in the night due to cardiac arrest.
FINAL JOURNEY
Ali, 37, was doing his routine work on Thursday night. His mother told his colleagues that she was with him till 1 am. But around 2.30 am he had called his mother.
“I went to his room. He was writhing in chest pain. He asked me to save him,” reported Greater Kashmir.
Panicked, the mother called her another son, Jehangir Ali, also a journalist. The family immediately shifted Mudasir to a nearby subdistrict hospital, which was just a few meters away from his house. The doctor on duty, not able to treat and revive Ali as per the family had referred him to SMHS hospital. It took family 50 minutes to reach Srinagar, but Mudasir had lost the battle. Doctors at Srinagar hospital declared him dead on arrival.
But one of his friends informed Kashmir Life that he was dead in initial 10 minutes when they were at SDH Chrar e Sharief. Mudasir, he said, was lost in the golden hour.
Negating the version of the doctors, one of his friends, also a doctor, said Mudasir may have actually died of ‘pulmonary thromboembolism’, which he said is rare at such a young age.
This story is from the December 20-26,2020 edition of Kashmir Life.
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