Unfortunate: Army on media reports casting aspersions on treatment of injured soldiers
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Unfortunate: Army on media reports casting aspersions on treatment of injured soldiers

New Delhi: The Indian Army on Saturday (July 4, 2020) termed media stories casting aspersions on how the troopers injured in the course of the Galwan Valley clashes in japanese Ladakh final month have been being handled on the General Hospital at Leh as ”unlucky and malicious.”

Issuing a clarification on this regard, the Indian Army mentioned that there have been “malicious and unsubstantiated accusations” relating to the state of the ability visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout his go to to the General Hospital at Leh on Friday (July 3).

“It is unfortunate that aspersions are being cast on how our brave Armed Forces are treated. The Armed Forces give the best possible treatment to their personnel,” the Army mentioned within the assertion.

The Army additional clarified that “the facility is part of the crisis expansion capacity of 100 beds and is very much part of the General Hospital Complex.”

The assertion added, “The COVID-19 protocol had necessitated some wards of the General Hospital to be converted into isolation facilities. Hence, this hall which otherwise was normally used as a Training Audio-Video Hall was converted into a ward ever since the hospital was also designated as COVID treatment hospital.”

It additional famous that the troopers who have been injured within the violent confrontation with China on 15 and 16 June have been saved within the make-shift ward since their arrival from the Galwan Valley to make sure quarantine from COVID areas. The Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane and the Army Commander additionally visited the injured troopers in the identical location. 

The clarification from the Indian Army got here a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a shock go to to Leh to overview the scenario on the LAC and later met the injured troopers on the General Hospital at Leh on Friday.

While interacting with them, PM Modi informed them that their bravery will likely be a “supply of inspiration for instances to return” and added that 130 crore Indians are pleased with them.

“Our country has never bowed down and will never bow down to any world power, and I am able to say this because of braves like you,” the Prime Minister mentioned whereas interacting with the injured troopers.

“We won’t ever bow right down to any energy of the world, mentioned the Prime Minister in a veiled reference to China.

In an enormous escalation of India-China border rigidity, 20 Indian troopers have been killed throughout a “violent face-off” with Chinese troops throughout the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in delicate Galwan Valley in japanese Ladakh on 15 June’s night time, the Indian Army mentioned.

Since then, each side have been concerned in talks to ease the continued border tensions since final month.

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