SRINAGAR: Doctors at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital staged a protest against the indiscriminate use of pellet guns in the occupied Kashmir.
Posing as pellet victims with one eye bandaged doctors and faculty members gathered at the Government Medical College Srinagar campus to stage a demonstration.
Doctors held placards with ?Hear our silence, see our blindness? and ?Stop killing innocent kids?.
 ?We, as a part of this society, are equally pained by the situation. Kashmir has witnessed havoc caused by the use of pellet guns,? said Dr Sajad Majid Qazi, General Secretary of Medical Faculty Association (MFA) of GMC Srinagar and Dental College Srinagar, the Indian Express reported.
Doctors claim to have treated 365 pellet victims since July 8. They have performed 428 eye surgeries in the hospital.
 Dr Muhammad Salim Khan, one of the protesters said that never before had the hospital witnessed a rush of patients with pellet injuries in their eyes.
 ?It is a heart-rending situation. This injury not only affects these patients physically, but also leaves scars on their psyche. This will have long term ramifications in their lives,? Khan said, speaking to the Indian Express.
Protests in occupied Kashmir have erupted over the killing of Burhan Wani, a 22-year-old commander of Hizbul Mujahideen on July 9. Indian security forces have resorted to firing pellets to disperse protesters injuring over 3500, and rendering some blind.
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