Category: Health

Health

Patients being treated in unhygienic conditions at Govt Medical College

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…

Read More

GMC students run SMHS Hospital in Srinagar

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…

Read More

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

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…

Read More

Resistance to antibiotics growing in Kashmir, say medicos

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…

Read More

SKIMS Medical College faculty interviews postponed 5th time

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…

Read More

Herpes zoster (Mal-der) and Hypnotherapy (Maetrawun)—what should one do?

Editor

Sul kak is uneasy, uneasy because he has been having acute pain on the right side of his chest since the last four days now. He has already received 2-3 injections from ‘Ashraf Saeb’ –the local pharmacist who doubles as the local ‘doctor saeb’ for the locality. There has been no relief in the pain and what is more, Sul kak has developed redness and fluid filled skin lesions on the right side of his chest and back, exactly on the area where the pain was. On the way back…

Read More

Valley docs seek curbs on spurious drugs

Editor

A delegation of the Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) and Medical Employees Federation (MEF) met PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and sought curbs on the sale of spurious drugs. The delegation, led by DAK president Nisar-ul-Hassan, met the PDP president on Tuesday and pointed out the deep rooted nexus between some shoddy pharma companies and drug mafia, the association said in a statement here today. The delegation voiced concern over “unabated influx of spurious and substandard drugs” into the Valley. The delegation urged the PDP president that the government should take “effective…

Read More

JK Govt finalises site for AIIMS in Kashmir region

Editor

Jammu and Kashmir government today said it has decided to set up the proposed All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Awantipora in Pulwama district of South Kashmir. Minister for Health and Medical Education Chaudhary Lal Singh said the location has been decided and the project needs a final go ahead from the Union ministry. Singh made the announcement while inspecting the picturesque site, measuring around 200 hectares at Awantipora along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, an official spokesman said. Singh said the government has completed all the formalities in…

Read More

Apathy, ignorance speeding up Hepatitis-B spread in Kupwara

Editor

Two years after it was reported from Diver area of Kupwara, Hepatitis B continues to infect more and more people for want of health education and screening by authorities. Hepatitis B has been reported in a large number of people in Kakadpati (Diver) village of Lolab in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district triggering panic in the area. Health authorities on Monday confirmed that 59 patients had tested positive for Hepatitis B in Kakadpati and Hajam Mohalla of Diver Lolab. However, some health officials said that the number might be much more…

Read More

Kashmir doctor not terminated yet being absent from last 28 years

Editor

Govt dismissing 192 missing doctors soon The government has failed to terminate hundreds of doctors absent from duties for years including a doctor missing for the past 28 years but Minister for Health Monday said he would soon dismiss 192 such doctors. A Right to Information (RTI) query of the Health Analytics India revealed some startling dimensions of chronic absenteeism in Kashmir. The data obtained from Kashmir in response to the RTI query revealed that a government doctor had remained absent for the past 28 years yet he had not…

Read More