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City women find Joggers Park perfect place to stay fit

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For women of posh localities in Srinagar, the Joggers Park is a perfect place where they can be seen doing exercises and brisk walking to stay fit every morning. Located in the elite locality of Rajbagh, the Joggers Park was inaugurated by former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah with the aim of providing recreational facilities to citizens. “This park has provided us a space for walking either in the evening or morning. It helps us to stay fit as we are lazy and eat so much and it doesn’t take much…

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Patient dies ‘in absence of doctors’ in Pulwama

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Death of a trader sparked protests against doctors of District Hospital in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday. The protesters alleged that due to absence of doctors in the hospital during late hours on Sunday, they were forced to shift the patient to Srinagar but he died on the way. “My cousin Manzoor Ahmed Sheikh son of Muhammad Abdullah, a resident of Aarihal Pulwama, complained of heartache on Sunday night. We rushed him to District Hospital Pulwama but to our surprise and shock not a single doctor was present in…

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Valley’s only dental college lacks basic facilities

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Patients referred to private labs for conducting basic tests The only dental college in the Valley is taking patients for a ride as the set-up lacks basic facilities, forcing people travelling to the institution from far flung areas of Kashmir to visit private clinics for treatment. People from across the Valley visit Government Dental College at Srinagar. However, they are forced to visit private labs as the institute doesn’t even possess basic facilities like X-ray machines. “The hospital lacks basic facilities like an X-ray machine and an auto-analyser. Doctors refer…

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Mufti stresses promotion of Unani medicine

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Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said Unani medicine should be promoted so that it gets a level playing field and integrates effectively into the state’s public health service. Inaugurating a global conference on Unani medicine at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) here, the Chief Minister said both homeopathy and allopathy take different trajectories to achieve the same goal of curing people. The two-day conference organised by the Directorate of Indian System of Medicine has attracted a large number of delegates from all over the world, including the United…

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26% J-K population uses tobacco products: Expert

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With 26 per cent population of J&K using tobacco products in one form or the other, the state is becoming a “lung cancer capital of India”. This was revealed by Dr NC Prabhakar, a resource person for an anti-tobacco campaign, at a workshop here. He said India is at No 3 in the production of tobacco products and second as the consumer in tobacco products in the world. He said 3.8 per cent population of the J&K smokes “bidis” while 8 per cent use smokeless tobacco products. “The prevalence of…

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Drug abuse promotion in Kashmir a conspiracy: DAK

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Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that the menace of drug abuse in Kashmir has reached unprecedented levels and the situation has become explosive. President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that drug abuse in valley is promoted in a well planned conspiracy to wipe out youth of the valley. Drugs are new weapons used for destroying our young generation. The hope and future of Kashmir is lost to drugs. Youth are targeted by drugs to make them physically, mentally and psychologically morbid. Substance abuse is a…

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Welcome to SKIMS; wait 4 hrs in queue, return untreated

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GoI sleeps on `450 crore expansion project Till 3 pm, middle- aged woman Habla from Kupwara has waited three hours in the queue for making a payment at SKIMS Cash Counter. She had also spent an hour at OPD Card Counter in morning, and then outside the medicine OPD she had to wait for another half hour. The counter closed and Habla was asked to come the next day to make the payments. On Monday, 750 payments were made at the two OPD Cash Counters. At four OPD Card Counters,…

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SKIMS doc demands blanket ban on carcinogenic substances

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Director Regional Cancer Centre, Shere-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences and head Department of Radiation Oncology, Dr Maqbool Lone on Tuesday urged people to avoid using carcinogenic disposables made up of thermacol, Styrofoam and plastics.  “With our experiments we understand such products are not self-biodegradable. To destroy them, users may have to incinerate/burn them which exude toxic fumes and ashes flying out of them are polluting the environment,” Lone said. He said inhalers of such substances are having chances of developing cancer. He recommended blanket ban on such carcinogenic substances to…

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Drug abuse spreading like cancer: Mufti

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Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said the Health Department had been directed to frame a comprehensive policy to check drug menace among the youth of the state. Observing that the drug abuse was spreading like “cancer in society”, Mufti said: “We need de-addiction and rehab centres at all district hospitals for our youth who fall prey to drugs. ”The Health Department has been tasked to frame a comprehensive policy on the issue to safeguard future of our youth, Mufti told the Legislative Assembly after the members cutting across party…

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Cancer cases on the rise in J&K

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The number of cancer patients in the state witnessed a rise in 2014 as compared to the previous years. A written reply in the Legislative Council today said a total of 7,098 patients were detected with cancer at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, and the government medical colleges of Jammu and Srinagar. In 2013, 6,300 patients were detected with cancer at these three institutes. Till September end this year, 4,993 patients were detected with cancer. Meanwhile, as per the figures provided by the SKIMS, 3,940 cancer patients…

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