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‘JK doctors prefer winter vacation over patient care’

December 15, 2015 Editor

DAK demands end to ‘elite practice’ Calling for an end to winter vacation of senior doctors in tertiary care hospitals, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that this practice leaves patients to suffer severely. Terming the practice unethical President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that holidays for senior doctors leave patients in lurch. “Patient care is worst hit and patients face immense hardships during holiday time of doctors,” Dr Hassan in a statement issued here said. “Every year faculty of referral hospitals go for two months…

How to prevent diabetes at workplace

December 14, 2015 Editor

If you are already showing higher than normal blood sugar levels as you spend more and more hours in office — enroll for an intervention programme at your workplace if it offers one immediately. According to a new study, employees enrolled in a workplace intervention programme as a group lost more weight, showed greater reductions in fasting blood sugar and ate less fat than employees who received only written health guidelines for diabetes prevention. “Adults spend a large portion of their time at work. This study shows that it is…

Toxic food colors, dyes risk public health in Kashmir

December 12, 2015 Editor

Increased use of unauthorized artificial food colors (AFCs) in Kashmir’s food industry is posing a serious threat to public health, with weak monitoring of the phenomenon adding to the risk, experts have opined. Over the years, the use of artificial colors—chemicals synthesized from petroleum—has gone up in the Valley, resulting in different ailments, medicos told. “Increasing instances of allergic reactions, hyperactivity in children and carcinogenic effects resulting from prolonged use of artificial colors and dyes is a proof of the menace in the market,” said a senior doctor at SHMS…

Kashmiri scientist ‘discovers’ TB cure

December 8, 2015 Editor

In a path breaking study, a young Kashmiri scientist has discovered a crucial protein secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which if targeted by specific drugs will provide faster diagnosis and possible cure to tuberculosis. Imtiyaz Yaseen, 29, who discovered the protein RV1988, has been working on the project as part of his Phd thesis since 2011. “It was my professor who gave me the idea about existence of a possible protein at the heart of tuberculosis infection,” said Imtiyaz who is doing his Phd at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics…

Kashmir is the capital of fatty liver disease patients: DAK

December 5, 2015 Editor

“hospitals lack Fibroscan, Patients suffer” Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that Kashmir hospitals are without the facility of Fibroscan that is used to establish the presence of fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with liver disease. Terming Fibroscan as an essential diagnostic tool for liver disease patients President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that patients in hospitals suffer due to lack of Fibroscan. It is unethical to keep hospitals especially tertiary care without Fibroscan as doctors nowadays cannot deal with liver disease patients without this breakthrough…

Patients being treated in unhygienic conditions at Govt Medical College

December 5, 2015 Editor

The state may have got award for the best health services in Jammu and Kashmir, but the patients are still being forced to get treated in extremely unhygienic conditions at Government Medical College (GMC) in Jammu — the busiest hospital of the state. The biggest hospital of the Jammu region having almost all the facilities and well-qualified doctors, which caters to hundreds of patients on daily basis, has failed to provide hygienic conditions to them on its premises. The canteen on the ground floor at the back of the old…

GMC students run SMHS Hospital in Srinagar

November 28, 2015 Editor

Seniors spend more time at clinics, death rate on rise Kashmir’s most visited hospital, SMHS, is fast losing its sheen as complaints about senior doctors leaving the patients at the mercy of the Government Medical College (GMC) students have been pouring in continuously. However, the frequent pleas to put system on track have fallen flat on the deaf ears. Sources told that senior doctors visit the hospital in the morning for rounds and “disappear” leaving the burden to handle the hospital on junior doctors, mostly GMC students, who are doing…

Silent Killer! 500 died of hypertension in JK in one year

November 27, 2015 Editor

• Experts pitch for special clinics Nearly 500 people have died due to hypertension and heart related disorders in Jammu and Kashmir in last one year which is almost 92 percent more than those killed in violence and militancy related incidents during the same period. According to the latest report of Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the number of cases of adolescent or adult deaths above 6 years is 430 with probable cause being heart disease or hypertension. The figure is nearly 92 percent more than those killed…

Resistance to antibiotics growing in Kashmir, say medicos

November 25, 2015 Editor

Taking antibiotics for “slight ailments” in Kashmir is leading to a dangerous scenario where resistance to these drugs is fast growing among people, experts have warned. Although antibiotics are prescription drugs, these are sold over-the-counter in Kashmir with no monitoring and adherence to the Drug Act that mandates that these be sold only with a prescription. “We have reported resistance to not just gram positive bacteria but also gram negative. We are sometimes left with no choice but to use the antibiotics that were considered toxic. Very soon, we will…

SKIMS Medical College faculty interviews postponed 5th time

November 21, 2015 Editor

Authorities have postponed the interviews of SKIMS Medical College faculty for the fifth time, leading to disappointment and anger in aspirants. The authorities on Friday postponed interviews for the various faculty positions for the second time in this month, at a short notice of one day. Last time too, when the interviews dates had been announced for November 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st of 2015, the authorities cancelled the interviews on November 12th, just a day prior to they were to take place. Aspirants have complained of loss of time and…