Lack of infrastructure and long shifts are taking a toll on healthcare workers in Kashmir For KM, who works at the Government Chest Diseases (CD) Hospital in Srinagar and is taking care of covid-19 patients, life after shifts that can stretch up to 24 hours doesn’t get easier.
There is no accommodation near the hospital. When he reaches home, he takes off his clothes after entering the main gate, bathes and isolates himself in a room till the next shift. “I can feel a void between me and them (the family) growing day by day.
I don’t even see them.... I just let them know I am home," he says. Kashmir reported its first case on 18 March, when a woman who had returned from umrah in Saudi Arabia tested positive.
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