Injured Police Inspector shifted to AIIMS for treatment

Srinagar, Dec 6: After undergoing treatment for over a month, a J&K Police Inspector who was injured in a terror attack in Eidgah area of Srinagar was shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday for specialised treatment.

Masroor Ahmad Wani, was shifted from Paras Hospital Srinagar to New Delhi in an Air Ambulance on Wednesday afternoon.

“He was taken to Srinagar Airport from there where he was shifted in Air Ambulance to New Delhi,” Police said.

They said that the process of shifting was supervised by Deputy Inspector General of Police, Central Kashmir Range, Sujit Kumar.

“He was stabilising here and we shifted him to AIIMS for specialised treatment,” Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir Zone, Virdi Kumar Birdi told Greater Kashmir Wednesday evening. “We coordinated and are hopeful of his early recovery.”

One of the officials from New Delhi said Wani has been admitted to the Trauma Ward of AIIMS and expert doctors have started examining him.

The Police Inspector was critically injured after terrorists fired at him in the Eidgah area of Srinagar in the last week of October this year.

Following the incident, he was admitted to the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS).

Later he was shifted to Paras Hospital Srinagar for treatment.

The incident had happened when Masroor Ahmad was playing cricket with local boys at Eidgah near a Masjid.