Surgeon Special
Seven years ago, when Dr Shakeel, a maxillofacial surgeon from Srinagar, started doing cleft surgeries, he was shocked by such high prevalence. Bilal Handoo...
A Silent Agony
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In the last 25 years of conflict psychological trauma and related diseases limited...
Half Steps
As world readies itself to bid goodbye to Polio for good, Safwat Zargar meets Shabir Ahmad Dagloo, who despite his handicap and penury, voluntarily...
Down With Disorder
The trend of late marriages has upset the genetic make-up of Kashmiris as prevalence of Down’s syndrome among new born has risen. Bilal Handoo...
Worm Therapy
Alternate therapies like using leeches to cure frost-bites and other ailments have survived the change and modernity. Bilal Handoo offers glimpses how leech therapy...
Manufacturing Doctors
Every summer, the CET set off a chain of reports about wrongdoings in the process. This year as the High Court sought status of...
Love In Turmoil
Kashmir is not only a huge family planning story but an emerging market for aphrodiacs as well. However, in-between lies the larger reality that...
A Flailing Society
A civilized society is born out of care for the environment, a sense of duty and belongingness to the places we live in. Kashmir’s...
Dangerous Contacts
People of Kashmir are today sharing space with a heavy military apparatus, huge tourist arrivals and lakhs of migrant laborers. How do these ‘mass...
An Ignoble Nexus
It all starts with small gifts like pen and notepad. But it doesn’t stop there. High end gadgets, expensive cars, foreign holidays are new...
An Illustrious Life
It was his love for surgery that took Dr Peerzada Abdul Rashid to London. But his heart beat for his people back home. After...
Unpopular Poplars
With experts issuing sustained warnings over the health hazards created by Russian Poplars or Rusi Frass in summers, there seems to be no end...
“I had tightened the noose around some people in the health department who are...
Caught in the controversy surrounding the purchase of spurious drugs supplied to various government hospitals in the state and blamed by his Congress colleague...
Formalizing Business
In wake of the crisis over the quality of medicines that government purchases for its hospitals in Kashmir, Omar Abdullah government revived Congress’s plan...
Dirty Nexus
The alleged involvement of a top Congress leader in the supply of spurious drugs to government hospitals not only speaks of the failing standards...
