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14-yr old hit in both eyes, 85-yr old in vital organs; 19-yr old has bullet in head
Pellet and bullet victims struggle for life
Srinagar, Publish Date: Aug 20 2016 11:36PM | Updated Date: Aug 20 2016 11:36PM
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For the sixth consecutive Friday, SMHS Hospital theaters remained hectically busy with the huge rush of people with firearm injuries inflicted by security forces; many of them critical.
In Surgical ICU, 19 year old Shahid Ahmed Yatoo of Galandar Pulwama struggles to open his bruised eyes and asks for water. His face and head is bandaged, his body swollen. A bullet has hit him just near his right ear, breaking his facial bones.
Wreathing in pain and his nose plugged with bandage, Shahid whispers, “He aimed straight at my head and shot the bullet.”
The doctors said that Shahid had been twice lucky. “One centimeter up, the bullet would have smashed his brain,” one of the doctors who operated upon him said. “He was brought to the hospital on time, and we were able to save his eyes also,” he added.
The bullet, the doctors said, had smashed his maxillary bone, pieces of which had gone around to hit the orbit of his eyes. “The floor of the eyes had broken but we were able to prevent any loss to eye sight,” an ENT surgeon said.
The incident had taken place just after Friday prayers at Kakapora Pulwama when there were protests in the area, his brother who attends to him at the hospital said.
In Ward 12 nearby, Owais Nazir, a Class 8 student of Handwara is being evaluated by surgeons. He has multiple pellets in chest and abdomen.
“Thankfully, his vital organs have been spared by pellets but not his eyes,” a senior surgeon says.
Owais’s both eyes have been hit by pellets.
Tears stream down his left eye but Owais smiles at his mother. “I can see with my right eye,” he insists as she gives a handkerchief in his hand. Owais is the only son and the youngest child of this laborer couple, who have three daughters.
Ophthalmologists at SMHS Hospital said that Owais had bilateral perforation due to a number of pellets, which could cause visual impairment. “His left eye is badly damaged,” an eye surgeon said. “His right eye has also been hit by multiple pellets,” he said.
Doctors said there were ‘tears in his cornea, lateral rectus and multiple metallic foreign bodies at his retro-ocular region’.
Owais says he was hit when security forces fired pellets at protestors in Handwara.
The newest entry to the hospital is the 85 year old Abdul Qayoom Bhat, hit by pellets in abdomen.
As he is being operated upon in Trauma Theatre, doctors who had done his radio imaging said he had perforation in small intestine and colon resulting in pressure to his lungs due to air and blood accumulation in thoracic cavity.
Relatives of Bhat said that security men came looking for his son who was not present. “They started beating the inmates and picked up another son of his,” one of the relatives, Javed Ahmed, said.
“When the father pleaded not to beat his son, they fired pellets,” he adds.
Bhat’s wife, an elderly woman is also injured but has been kept in Tral. “She has injuries in arm due to pellets,” another relative said.
Hospital authorities said 34 injured were admitted at the hospital Friday evening with 15 of them having pellet injuries in eyes.
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/...gans-19-yr-old-has-bullet-in-head/226288.html
Pellet and bullet victims struggle for life
Srinagar, Publish Date: Aug 20 2016 11:36PM | Updated Date: Aug 20 2016 11:36PM
For the sixth consecutive Friday, SMHS Hospital theaters remained hectically busy with the huge rush of people with firearm injuries inflicted by security forces; many of them critical.
In Surgical ICU, 19 year old Shahid Ahmed Yatoo of Galandar Pulwama struggles to open his bruised eyes and asks for water. His face and head is bandaged, his body swollen. A bullet has hit him just near his right ear, breaking his facial bones.
Wreathing in pain and his nose plugged with bandage, Shahid whispers, “He aimed straight at my head and shot the bullet.”
The doctors said that Shahid had been twice lucky. “One centimeter up, the bullet would have smashed his brain,” one of the doctors who operated upon him said. “He was brought to the hospital on time, and we were able to save his eyes also,” he added.
The bullet, the doctors said, had smashed his maxillary bone, pieces of which had gone around to hit the orbit of his eyes. “The floor of the eyes had broken but we were able to prevent any loss to eye sight,” an ENT surgeon said.
The incident had taken place just after Friday prayers at Kakapora Pulwama when there were protests in the area, his brother who attends to him at the hospital said.
In Ward 12 nearby, Owais Nazir, a Class 8 student of Handwara is being evaluated by surgeons. He has multiple pellets in chest and abdomen.
“Thankfully, his vital organs have been spared by pellets but not his eyes,” a senior surgeon says.
Owais’s both eyes have been hit by pellets.
Tears stream down his left eye but Owais smiles at his mother. “I can see with my right eye,” he insists as she gives a handkerchief in his hand. Owais is the only son and the youngest child of this laborer couple, who have three daughters.
Ophthalmologists at SMHS Hospital said that Owais had bilateral perforation due to a number of pellets, which could cause visual impairment. “His left eye is badly damaged,” an eye surgeon said. “His right eye has also been hit by multiple pellets,” he said.
Doctors said there were ‘tears in his cornea, lateral rectus and multiple metallic foreign bodies at his retro-ocular region’.
Owais says he was hit when security forces fired pellets at protestors in Handwara.
The newest entry to the hospital is the 85 year old Abdul Qayoom Bhat, hit by pellets in abdomen.
As he is being operated upon in Trauma Theatre, doctors who had done his radio imaging said he had perforation in small intestine and colon resulting in pressure to his lungs due to air and blood accumulation in thoracic cavity.
Relatives of Bhat said that security men came looking for his son who was not present. “They started beating the inmates and picked up another son of his,” one of the relatives, Javed Ahmed, said.
“When the father pleaded not to beat his son, they fired pellets,” he adds.
Bhat’s wife, an elderly woman is also injured but has been kept in Tral. “She has injuries in arm due to pellets,” another relative said.
Hospital authorities said 34 injured were admitted at the hospital Friday evening with 15 of them having pellet injuries in eyes.
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/...gans-19-yr-old-has-bullet-in-head/226288.html
