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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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WHO cautions against excessive use of antibiotics

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned that the current practice of indiscriminate use of antibiotics is increasingly leading to resistance to medicines, persistence of infections and treatment failure. “Immediate action is needed to stop the world from heading towards a pre-antibiotic era in which all achievements made in prevention and control of communicable diseases will be reversed,” Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia Region, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, said at a recent regional meeting of WHO at Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste. Health ministers and senior health officials of…

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Govt warns FCI of providing substandard food grains

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Provide quality food or we will look at options: Zulfkar ‘NFSA will mark a paradigm shift to meet food shortage’ Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) and Tribal Affairs Ch. Zulfkar Ali Saturday issued strict instructions to Food Corporation of India (FCI) asking it to provide quality food grains to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Reviewing the preparatory arrangements being made for the implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA), Minister warned the FCI that if it failed to provide quality food grains to the department, the…

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Ban surgeries at private hospitals, nursing homes: Lal Singh directs officers

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‘Won’t let them operate till they register blood banks, post operative care’ Minister for Health and Medical Education, Choudhary Lal Singh Tuesday directed health officials to ban all the private hospitals and nursing homes of Jammu and Kashmir from performing surgeries till they setup and register proper blood banks in their premises for admitted patients. The minister said the issue of illegal clinics, diagnostic centers and private hospitals would be raised in upcoming Assembly session to develop consensus over the closing of unauthorized hospitals and nursing homes. “We will not…

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