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| Post floods: Valley witnesses increase in psychaitric patients | | | Shakeel A Khan
SRINAGAR, Oct 8: The worst ever floods, which recently struck the Kashmir valley, has caused the depression as the Valley has witnessed a sudden rise in the psychiatric patients. The medicos treating such patients say that the increase is a cause of concern, which needs an immediate redressal, that too at the national level. Taking a walk through the lanes and the by lanes of the flood affected areas, subjects everybody to inconvenience and to the subsequent depression also. Virtually there are the scenes of mourning in the flood affected areas since the loss of property is so immense that everybody finds it hard to bring the lost smile on his/her face.
On being asked a resident from Qamarwari namely Ghulam Qadir said that how difficult the life is for him now. He said it is only the restlessness that prevails on him as his lifelong hard work has been spoiled in just a moment's fury. He said that that he fails to sleep well and it is only with the help of a diazepam tablet that he sleeps for a couple of hours.
The house of Qadir looks very much intact when one looks at the external walls but on entering this house one finds its interior walls collapsed with every chance that the house may cave in any time. Qadir said that the flood has brought two misfortunes to him; one in the form of loss of property which was his whole life earning and secondly the disintegrated house poses a threat to his life and to the lives of his siblings.
A medico namely Altaf Ahmad, who treats the psychiatry patients said his clinic has witnessed a sudden surge in the patients with depression, as the recent flood has potentially harmed the interests of the people of the valley, particularly of the ones with poor economic background.
Altaf said that it is not only the flood that has dashed the hopes of the people to the ground as according to him, it is the poor response shown by the government that has deepened the wound of the people. The affected, as this medico said, have been left in the midst of the sea to perish.
The chilling cold, which has just begun to make inroads into the Valley, is the biggest challenge that the flood hit people will be facing. It is further going to affect the mental health of the flood affected people, which will be a disaster of its own kind. |
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