Agencies:

Over the past weeks, Hospitals treating COVID-19 patients in Srinagar are witnessing a steep escalation in the number of patients requiring intensive treatment and oxygen support.

At Chest Diseases Hospital in Srinagar, a COVID-19 designated facility of Government Medical College Srinagar, it was a house full on Thursday. While the doctors had for long been complaining of asymptomatic cases occupying the hospitals, today they were struggling to ensure more than 50 percent of their occupants have oxygen support, in order to save their lives.

Dr Saleem Tak, Medical Superintendent, CD Hospital said 60 patients out of around 100 admitted with them on 9th July were on oxygen while 07 more were on invasive ventilator support. 10 more, he said, were on non-invasive ventilators.
"Initially we had 90% of our patients asymptomatic. It is turning the other way around,� he said. There has been a rise in the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the past weeks in Kashmir. In the month of July, from 01 July to 08 July, 46 deaths have taken place in Kashmir as per Government data available.