Hundreds of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients, dependent on long-term oxygen therapy during winters, are gasping for oxygen in Kashmir due to prolonged and unprecedented electricity cuts, owing to poor planning to procure electricity ahead of winters this year.
Ghulam Muhammad Mir, 85, a resident of Srinagar’s Alamgari Bazar, had a near-death experience in November when he was left gasping due to prolonged electricity outage. Mr. Mir is a COPD patient and, like hundreds of other such patients, is dependent on continuous oxygen supply.
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