With most hospitals, mainly government ones, unable to maintain hygienic standards and take proper infection control measures, people, mostly from rural Kashmir, visiting them are susceptible to diseases. The president of the Doctors’ Association, Kashmir, said hospitals lacked proper facilities to prevent infections. “We don’t have infection control measures at public hospitals. There are no soaps in washrooms. Not to talk of patients, even there is no infrastructure for doctors leading to the spread of infections in hospitals. Even in the ICU and emergency wards there are all kinds of…
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