Kashmir’s first COVID-19 patient returns home

Although there are 48 active COVID-19 cases in Kashmir,which is the highest in the country given the number of positive cases permillion, there is also a silver lining to this dark cloud.

Kashmir’s first positive case, the 65-year-old woman fromdowntown Srinagar is completely cured and is back home where she would nowfollow the mandatory quarantine of 14 days or 28 days as advised by thedoctors.

   

Before she was discharged from the Sher-e-Kashmir instituteof medical sciences (SKIMS) Srinagar, doctors said she tested negative for thevirus twice.

All her contacts have also fortunately tested negative.

She had returned to Srinagar after the ‘Umrah’ pilgrimagefrom Saudi Arabia on March 16.

A controversy was woven around her by saying that she hadescaped screening at Srinagar airport because of her IPS son-in-law who usedinfluence to sneak her out without screening.

The officer, a local, not only denied the report, but alsovolunteered along with his family to go into self-quarantine.

With the woman leaving the hospital fully cured, thecontroversy unnecessarily raked around her son-in-law serving the policedepartment must settle down for good.

The fact that this woman was cured even when age was not onher side also kindles hope in hundreds of COVID-19 patients in the country.

Majority of contacts of COVID-19 cases are testing negative.This fact is not being highlighted because fear and consternation keeps usfocused on the bad news.

Most people in J&K are of the opinion that the mediamust also focus on good news while cautioning people against the scourge ofcoronavirus.

“We can win this global war provided we stand unitedand stand determined that we have no option, but to defeat the Pandemic.

“A positive mindset, a scientific approach to patienttreatment and prevention of community transmission are our best weapons toshoot down the virus”, said Dr. Parvaiz Koul, a noted local pulmonologist.

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