SRINAGAR / The doctor cried over the death of the patient, knowing the reason, you will also become emotional

A rare sight was seen on the second day of the death of a Kashmiri Pandit at the Psychiatric Hospital in Srinagar city of Jammu and Kashmir. The doctors and staff of the hospital were so sad at his death, as if they had lost a member of their own family. Just before the mass exodus of the community in the early 1990s, a Kashmiri Pandit girl was admitted by her family to a psychiatric hospital in Srinagar.

Thirty years broke up

Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Government Medical College, Srinagar, Prof. Maqbool Ahmed Dar said that she stayed with us for 30 years. She had become a part of this extended family of the hospital.

Doctors at the hospital said that the patient's mother used to visit her occasionally, but seeing the care and affection with which her daughter was being treated, the mother never asked her to take her back.

Cremation according to Hindu rituals

When the patient could not be saved after suffering a heart attack on Tuesday, doctors called his sister who lives in the city. The patient was given a final bath in the hospital as per Hindu rituals.

Doctors and medical staff expressed grief

The doctors and nursing staff who treated and looked after him said, 'We started his last journey from the same hospital which was his home for the last 30 years and we accompanied him to the cremation ground along with the bereaved family members. We could not hold back our tears, although all this happened even when it is part of our profession to see someone's death so closely.

During her stay in the hospital, doctors used to call her by her name and she knew every doctor by name, regardless of her mental illness.

The participation of the staff of the Srinagar Hospital for Psychiatric Diseases in the last visit of this girl defines the human values ​​of Kashmiris. At the same time, this event will be remembered as a glorious chapter of the liberal culture of the valley.