Breeding An Epidemic
The hospitals in a Kashmir are ill-equipped to handle the waste, especially bio-medical and radioactive, putting lives and the environment at risk. Ikhlaq Qadri...
Outbreak
An outbreak of gastroenteritis with cholera like symptoms claimed eight lives, with more than six thousand people needing hospitalisation across five districts of the state. Haroon Mirani reports.
Practicing tradition
In the times when allopathy is the most preferred system of medicine in Kashmir, there are many who still practice traditional medicine. Aliya Bashir...
Heart Break
After years of suspense, Kashmir has lost its chance to have a super speciality cardiac centre headed by internationally renowned top cardiologist Dr Fayaz...
Polluting Lives
With the increase in the use of drugs among valley youth, many addicts are trying different substances. Sharing of syringes by addicts leads to...
Eating Right
DR SEEMIN RUBAB
In the present market driven economy our eating habits have changed drastically. Instead of natural healthy diet a shift towards processed unhealthy...
Where are Juvenile homes
Shazia Yousuf
With her head resting in her grandmother’s lap, nine-year-old Iqra makes unsuccessful attempts to sleep. She is in trauma and her body burns...
Financing Healthcare: Some Innovative Options
On the 27th Annual Day of SKIMS (December 5, 2009), economist, and banker Dr Haseeb A Drabu delivered the Sher-i-Kashmir Oration suggesting a business...
Mysterious Rajouri fever spreading
While the Swine Flu threat, that grabbed a lot of media attention, seems to be under control in the J&K, the state is oblivious...
Refer to Srinagar
Tertiary health care services in Srinagar are crumbling under the rural rush, as district hospitals are skipping their responsibilities and referring patients to Srinagar...
Healthy Trend
A state of the art 100 bedded private hospital coming up in Srinagar is expected to bring some relief to the ailing over burdened...
A long, long drive to hospital
A year after Kashmir saw harshest curfews post 1990’s, Majid Maqbool recounts a compelling journey through the curfewed streets of Srinagar. My phone rings,...
Baby Boom…
Every month two test tube babies are conceived in Kashmir after infertile couples undergo in-vitro fertility (IVF) treatment at Rotunda Hygeia, state’s first and...
Innocence trampled
A child killed by a father, a minor raped by a neighbour. More and more cases of child abuse are reported from different corners of the valley. Hamidullah Dar reports.
Struggle against forgetfulness
In 2008, Kashmir made a transition from violence to non-violence. But the state responded with the same iron fist – volleys of bullets met...
