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Health

This section is a detailed listing of the various facets of staying healthy in Jammu and Kashmir. It has copies about the diseases, research, practitioners, the infrastructure and the economics of it. Exceptional individuals and institutions are profiled also.

Being Covid-19 Positive

Avoided by family and isolated at hospitals, the patients go through a gruelling ordeal on their path to recovery, reveals Saima Bhat On March 16,...

Covid Champions

Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...

“There is substantial number of lymphoma/leukemia patients in the valley”

Javeed Iqbal - Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, Nebraska, USA -...

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...

New Bird Flu

With people desperate for a vaccine to manage the Covid-19, a pandemic that has killed two million people worldwide, the new bird flu has...

Virus of Stigma

Blaming the Covid-19 patients for their disease is weakening the efforts to control it, reports Saima Bhat After walking out of a hotel along Boulevard...

Abuse of Antibiotics?

A Biotechnology Scholar, Zeenat Farooq, cautions about the use of Antibiotics and writes that mass awareness is need of the hour for both the...

Why Online Classes Should Become Part Of Curriculum? 

by Dr Reyaz Ahmad Ganaie World today is facing the biggest challenge, the Covid-19 pandemic. It has affected one and all. With no cure in...

Phone Blindness?

Busy parents may find some solace by giving their kids to play with their phones but doctors say the smart-phone abuse by kids is...

Why Virtual Classroom Is Not Efficient For Elementary Classes? 

by Mukhtar Ahmad Farooqi With the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown to break the chain of transmission across the globe, millions of...
A girl walks outside deserted Dooru hospital building. KL Image by Shah Hilal

A Model Wasted

Deep down south, the government invested heavily in creating a model health centre. As it is waiting for inauguration, part of the precious equipment...

Besieged By Coronavirus

As the world scrambles to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, fear and anxiety have gripped Kashmir too. Saima Bhat reports about how people have started coping...

A Viral Vocabulary

The pandemic caused by the invisible Coronavirus has started dictating a new value system as part of its etiquettes regime. In order to understand...

Changed Concerns

The battle against the virus triggered pandemic has pushed everything else to the back-burner in the private and public sector reports Tasavur Mushtaq Said to be...

Ambulance Chasing

A decade after National Health Mission sanctioned 416 ambulances for Jammu and Kashmir, the vehicles are yet to arrive, reports Saima Bhat “Hello. Aap ka...