Four nurses return safely from flood-hit Kashmir

KOCHI: Four nurses, two of them principals of nursing colleges, who were stranded in Kashmir since September 6 returned home on Saturday afternoon. They had gone to Srinagar for a national conference of Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI).
TNAI national president and principal of San Joe College of Nursing in Pazhanganad Sr Gilbert; TNAI national vice-president Grace Mathai; TNAI (Kerala branch) president Roy K George and his wife Beena Agnet Mani had gone to Srinagar on September 4 for a two-day conference that started the next day.
On September 6, they returned to their hotel and went to sleep early as they had to catch a flight on September 7.
"When we woke up in the morning, we found that the hotel was flooded till the second floor. We had lost communication with our family members and there was no enough water to drink or go to the bathroom as even the storage water in the hotel was spoilt. After six days I had a bath on Saturday morning," said George.
They were airlifted from their hotel terrace on September 11. "We collected important items in our handbag and decided to leave our baggage behind, as people were rushing to get into the flight that had a carrying capacity of 200. After all, human life is more precious than material objects," he added.