Gasping For Breath
In the absence of treatment, the basic requirement for managing the Covid-19 cases is oxygen. As the existing infrastructure in the health sector is...
Longest Recess
Except for a fortnight-long reopening of educational institutions in March, the lingering yearlong security siege now melded with Covid-19 lockdown has effectively turned Kashmir...
A Cancer Fighter
As the Coronavirus overwhelms the healthcare facilities in Kashmir, depriving seriously ailing non-Covid patients of a place for treatment, the Cancer Society of Kashmir...
The Plasma Plan
In the absence of any treatment, the doctors in Kashmir are now using Convalescent Plasma Therapy to treat a certain section of Covid-19 patients...
Earth’s Invisible Owners
His encounters with invisible contagions apart, Kashmir origin American epidemiologist, Dr Ali S Khan’s book offers fascinating simplification of the complex scientific processes and the significance...
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...
