Aala Fazli, a research scholar at Kashmir University and a volunteer at SMHS, told dna that victims require a support system once they are released from hospital. The youngest patient in SMHS is a four-year-old girl who has received injuries during "a stampede caused due lathi charge", while the oldest patient is a 75-year-old. The report, accessed by dna, is compiled by doctors of the emergency department, which alone has received more than 400 patients for treatment. A pellet victim is a living memory of how brutal things can get in the Valley," said the doctor. According to the statistics offered in the report a staggering 149 patients have received injuries above their waist including in their eyes, face, chest, shoulder, neck, head and tongue.

Source: dna July 23, 2016 02:07 UTC