Srinagar, April 05 : Wearing masks, a lost in deep
thoughts, majority of them are asymptomatic, but yet they turned to be
positive for deadly Covid-19. They are the bunch of patients under
quarantine or what is called isolation at Sher – i – Kashmir Institute
of Medical Sciences Soura, Srinagar.
Sitting on their beds, these patients are pondering as to what this
novel coronavirus has brought for them as they are not even able to see
their loved ones and even those who are assigned to care for them
“doesn’t come too closer to them fearing they may catch the disease”.
Moved by the sudden change in the life just because of a small virus,
there is silent prayer right from the bottom of hearts of these
patients who are fighting novel virus and i.e. “O, Almighty, don’t
spread this disease anymore, stop it with us only.”
“Ask me what it means to stay away from families, children and home,” a
visibly upset patient, ready to fight Covid-19 in an isolation ward of
SKIMS, Soura told Kashmir Indepth News service (KINS).
“God should save Kashmir and its people from this disease. We have
seen worst and can’t bear this pain now. We have not even taken a bath
since past almost over a week. We go to collect meals from a gallery.
Doctors do come to us and maintain distance. This all is for our safety,
but feeling of this all is not good at all.”
Another patient told KINS being in an isolation ward may be good for
us but a psychological trauma we are going through is something we can
never forget if we succeed to defeat this deadly pandemic.
“Thank God, we are able to speak to our dear ones back home through
video calls even though calls buffer most of the time due to little
over 2 G speed,” the patient said, amid a laugh over phone.
“Whenever we speak to our family members including children, it’s not
just our tongue but tears speak more than our tongues. Our family
members cry so do we and at times calls drop. We console them and they
console us. We hope things will get better and this disease doesn’t
spread.”
Emotions run high in the
ward as a father, with wrinkles of worry on his face, refusing to leave
his 10-year-old son, alone. The boy was tested positive for Covid-19
and his father negative. But father-son love is at its peak in the
isolation ward.
“How can I leave
my son alone in this ward? He is too little to be left alone,” the
visibly upset father told KINS over phone.
The patients in isolation have no complaints against doctors, food and
overall care by the para-medics, but in their heart of hearts, they
are praying for the end of this pandemic soon from the soil of Kashmir.
They say, people of Kashmir have been going through so many odds since
past over three decades and Kashmiri society is too weak to fight this
virus, but maintain that “the only hope is Almighty and they were
hopeful this too shall pass….”(KINS)