Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 14: A woman from Chanapora area here died for the want of ventilator in Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura yesterday.
The relatives of the deceased woman namely Tasleema Shah (48), wife of Nisar Ahmad Shah, resident of Friends Colony Chanapora, said she fell unconscious after her mother-in-law, who was also her aunt, died on Thursday evening.
The family immediately rushed her to Florence Hospital Chanapora and later she was referred to SKIMS Soura, said Dr Abdul Majeed, one of her close relatives.
At SKIMS, she was admitted in Intensive Care Unit after conduct of some important medical tests including CT scan. “She was in need of ventilator but there was no ventilator and the doctors put her on umbobag which ultimately became cause of her death,” he added.
Admitting delay in providing ventilator, SKIMS Medical Superintendent Dr Farooq Jan said that there is shortage of ventilators “because the hospital sees rush of patients from across the Kashmir”.
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