An Addict’s Story
He started smoking for fun but once he landed in a college in Delhi things turned ugly. With drugs like cocaine and cannabis easily...
Exiled In Past
The banks of Srinagar’s Nigeen Lake are host to Kashmir’s three generations of leprosy patients. They live, grow, marry and die inside the four...
Forgotten Hakeems
Nestled in old lanes of Srinagar, Hakeems are struggling to survive in face of modernity. Syed Asma talks to some of the surviving practitioners...
Healthy Beginning
It was a childhood dream that made this south Kashmir boy pursue medicine and then start a hospital of his own. Suhail A Shah...
Critically Missing
With Kashmir’s highways sans emergency services one has to travel around 70 kilometres to avail critical care in case of an accident. Suhail A...
Cashmere’s Carcinogens
Two latest medical pieces of research have held the prevalence of smoking and salted tea as the main factors for the increased prevalence of...
Dial For Health
Next time you wish to see a doctor in Srinagar just dial EAO’s free helpline and it will be done. Started with an aim...
Between Death
With government busy in trading rhetoric a village in South Kashmir is forced to choose between death and slow death. Suhail A Shah reports...
Canine Casualties
Despite official claim of reducing dog population to half in just two years canines are on the loose and stronger than ever. Syed Asma...
Knowing H1N1
As H1N1 is emerging as the new cause of concern in Kashmir, Dr Rabbanie Tariq Wani offers a quick guide to the causes and...
An Itchy Discount
Post flood, sales in Srinagar and elsewhere saw huge turnout of shoppers looking for cheap bargains. But using flood-affected items ended up people queuing...
No Pain, Please!
In order to bypass labor pain and get quick results, a number of mothers voluntarily opt to go under the knife. But not always...
Brave Hearts of GB Panth Hospital
Amid fear, chaos and rising tempers, eleven doctors kept their nerves intact to save 300 infants admitted at GB Pant hospital during recent floods....
On duty!
When almost entire private and government health sector inundated by floods, doctors at SKIMS and JLNM Hospital kept the hopes afloat. Syed Asma reports
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Back to Hakeem Days?
The decimation of Srinagar’s major private and public hospitals and a chain of diagnostic centres could push the society back by many decades if...
