A young doctor's eyes welled up with tears as she attended to her husband inside the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Government Medical College and Associated Hospital (GMCH) in Anantang.
On Tuesday, militants sprayed her husband with bullets, and he received one each in the abdomen and neck.
On a ventilator now, the wait of Dr. Parmeshwari's wife, Dr. Nayantra, for her family members from Chennai to come and assist her in this time of grief has been nothing short of an ordeal. A vacation trip to Kashmir turned into a nightmarish experience for the couple.
"We were shifted here from civil hospital in Pahalgam. I never expected life to come to this pass," said Dr Nayantra.
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Inside the ICU, an elderly person, Vino Bhau, a resident of Gujrat, felt equally devastated after having received a bullet wound in the militant attack.
"I was among the group of 20 people on whom militants fired randomly and I received an injury in my arm," he said.
Police and health officials said that at least 26 tourists were killed in the militant attack, while several others who were injured are undergoing treatment at different hospitals in Kashmir, including the main tertiary care hospital Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS).
At GMCH Anantnag, two patients are currently undergoing treatment with police having barred the entry of people other than the attendants to the ICU ward.
The attendants of patients are only allowed through a metal detector with heavy security having being deployed both within and outside the hospital. Police officials said that the Home Minister, Amit Shah, was likely to visit the hospital.
The road outside the hospital remained teemed with gun-wielding police personnel, and after the militant attack, the security has been particularly beefed up across Kashmir. Police personnel were seen checking the vehicles with major roads across Anantnag covered with metal barricades.
According to police officials, additional reinforcements were rushed to the Baisran area of Pahalgam, where the militants attacked the tourists, and the area has been placed under a cordon to track the militants.
In Kashmir, Pahalgam remains among the major tourist attractions and witnesses a heavy rush of Amarnath pilgrims during the annual yatra to the holy Amarnath cave shrine. This year, the yatra will begin on July 3 and continue till August 9, and the registration process has already started for the pilgrimage.
