Doctors in Kashmir bandage their eyes to protest use of pellet guns
Doctors of Government Medical College, Srinagar on Wednesday covered an eye to protest the use of pellet guns by security forces in Kashmir Valley.
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Doctors of Government Medical College, Srinagar on Wednesday staged a unique and silent protest inside the college, covering their one eye with the bandage to mimic hundreds of victims who have suffered pellet injures in the eyes during the ongoing unrest in Kashmir Valley. Sameer Yasir
Dressed in traditional white aprons, the doctors had blind folded one of their eyes to highlight the serious damage caused to the eyes of scores of the youth in the ongoing unrest. Sameer Yasir
Dr Sajad Majid Qazi, General Secretary of Doctors Association, said that the use of pellets anywhere is inhuman and should be immediately stopped. He asked how can anyone claim that that these weapons were non-lethal, when three people have already been killed because of them and hundreds have been maimed. Sameer Yasir
The association of the doctors demanded that the authorities should put an immediate ban on the pellet guns. They stressed that the unabated use of pellet guns to quell protest in Kashmir is causing an irreparable damage to vital organs of people, and not just men, but women too have suffered. They said the use of tear smoke shells was equally detrimental to the health of patients, attendants and the hospital staff. Sameer Yasir
Sajad Khanday, another doctor at the protest venue, said that despite concern of the doctors from the Valley and outside, the government has been unable to stop the rampant use of pellet guns, and the hospitals continue to receive patients with pellet injuries from different parts of Kashmir. Sameer Yasir