Paramedical staff SMHS protests against use of pellet guns

Demands immediate ban on its use

5 Dariya News

Srinagar 08-Aug-2016

Though the use of pellet guns by forces continue to wound civilians in Kashmir, the paramedical staff and nurses of SMHS Hospital Monday staged protest demanding immediate ban on its use.The Nurses and paramedical staff of Srinagar’s hospital where around hundred injured civilians are still being treated assembled outside the hospital premises. They were chanting slogans and were holding placards displaying ‘Stop Genocide, Stop killing Kashmiris, Stop blinding Kashmiris, and Stop use of pellet guns’.The protesters said that the everlasting number of persons so far received pellet injuries while more than 200 who had received injuries in eyes were operated. “The silence of state government over its use seems that they are also okay with it but it stands the responsibility of the government to ensure safety of every citizen here,” they said.

They said that the government should order immediate ban on the use of pellet guns so that the people could feel a sigh of relief. “The pellet guns are not only injuring the protesters but scores of people also died after receiving pellet injuries,” protesters said.Notably, the paramedics are dealing with a massive rush of people with pellet and bullet injuries in the ongoing agitation.Pertinently, scores of non-gazetted employees of JVC hospital on 1st August staged protest against the use of pellet guns on protesters.Reports said the non-gazetted staff of JVC took out procession from the hospital premises and staged sit-in at Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway.Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) has also condemned the use of such weapons on protesters and had said that the weapons are not only injuring the protesters but are killing them as well. (KNS)