The Virus Hunter
At the forefront of the detection and control of the viral outbreaks within and outside the USA in the last more than 20 years...
‘The Situation Is Grim’
The SKIMS Medical College Principal, Dr Riyaz Untoo is managing a major Covid-19 facility. He tells Syed Samreen that the cases are going to increase exponentially...
CoviDepression
After losing nearly 300 and prevailing infection to more than 12,000 people, it is still too early to assess the real psychological costs of...
‘We do not know which strain of the mutating virus is active right now’
Dr A G Ahanger, Director SKIMS Srinagar tell Masood Hussain in a freewheeling interview
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the state and status of the battle against the Covid-19 in...
‘We Need To Prepare Ourselves For The Worst’
Prominent urologist, Dr M Salim Wani was stung by the contagion forcing him to get into nightmarish isolation. Caught between ostracisation and cytokine crisis, he overcame...
Educator Par Excellence
A trained engineer and a passionate teacher holds his class in an open ground well before the sunrise and this model of teaching in...
Corona Carnage?
In comparison to the first 100 days, Kashmir doubled up the Covid-19 body-bags in succeeding 25 days. Now more die young without co-morbidities. As...
In No Go Area
Unshakable faith in God and compassion for the ailing inspires Jameel Ahmad Digoo, an ambulance driver of the health department, to ferry Covid-19 positive...
Keeping The Commitment
In a remote village in Anantnag, a doctor is working among nomads to help them face up to pandemic, reports Umar Khurshid
Amid the Coronavirus triggered...
Doc, Heal Thyself
The health givers are messiahs in their own right because they help people to live longer, reduce their pain and contribute immensely to the...
Childbirths In Pandemic
At a time when Kashmir’s Coronavirus caseload is soaring past 5000, the exponential rise in the number of infected pregnant women has raised fears...
The Covid Collaterals
As a person tests positive for Covid-19, the entire eco-system for the family and the villages’ changes abruptly. Authorities take away the people to...
Depression And Despair Apart, Why Quarantine Is One’s Best Councillor?
by Taizeen Khurshid Naqash
Solitude and isolation are painful things and beyond human endurance. Loneliness is the central cause of depression and despair. Self-isolation is...
The Exam Fever
Students who somehow reached home during the pandemic are being asked by their universities to return and appear in examinations. This too at a time...
How The Pandemic Is Seriously Impacting The Cancer Patients?
by Javaid Iqbal
In his Pulitzer prize-winning book about cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee called it The Emperor of All Maladies. Cancer is one of the oldest...
