SRINAGAR, India: India's health ministry on Monday (Mar 30) invited doctors in Indian-administered Kashmir to an online training session on ...
Paramilitary soldiers question a motorist at a checkpoint during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Srinagar on Mar 30, 2020. SRINAGAR, India: India's health ministry on Monday invited doctors in Indian-administered Kashmir to an online training session on managing ventilators: Critical equipment for patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
Authorities detained thousands and introduced one of the world's longest-running internet shutdowns, only restoring limited 2G mobile internet in January. Dr Suhail Naik, president of the main doctors' association in Kashmir, said education drives seen elsewhere in India about the symptoms of the virus are impossible to run in the region."We want to educate people through videos, which is not possible at 2G speed. We are handicapped in the absence of high-speed internet," he said.
"We are unable to connect with the students due to internet connectivity. It is 2G and they are unable to download study material," he said."I fail to understand why they aren't restoring high speed internet. Earlier, they had an excuse of law and order problems, but now there is curfew and fear of coronavirus and no one would dare to come out."
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