Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Aug 6: Shocked over deliberate teargas shelling on hospitals and other medical facilities, a doctors’ body today said ‘these are acts of utmost savagery’.
Condemning these barbaric attacks on medical facilities in emergency situation, the president of Doctors’ Association Kashmir (DAK) Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan said these attacks disrupt the delivery of medical services and endanger care providers at a time when they are needed most.
“Attacks on medical facilities are not only blatant violation of international humanitarian law but they deprive injured persons of urgently needed medical care. These systematic attacks on crucial life-saving assets, at this point of time are putting the lives of sick and wounded at serious risk. There can be no justification for targeting medical facilities at any time,” he said.
He said these repeated attacks on vital lifelines leave patients no choice but to flee. “There is no excuse for deliberately targeting hospital after hospital. The latest string of attacks on medical facilities appears to be part of a pattern to target medics and hospitals. It appears to have become a new norm,” added the DAK president.
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