Lal Ded’s Shame
As the world celebrates Mother’s Day, Shazia Yousuf and Shazia Khan visit Srinagar’s biggest maternity hospital, Lal Ded, to find the treatment met to...
Sucking the disease out
An age-old method of cure by sucking impure blood, leech therapy has now entered medical textbooks. Hospitals in Kashmir too use this method for...
Kashmir: HIV Enters Schools
The growing incidence of HIV infection in J&K has been an open secret for some time, but now the monster has extended its reach...
No taboo this
Changing perceptions improve the life of leprosy patients in Kashmir but they want their normal children liberated from their shacks. Shazia Yousuf spends a...
Mental health’s physical challenge
by Maroosha Muzzaffar
The lone mental health care hospital in Kashmir lacks a rehabilitation centre, a facility psychiatrists insist is essential for chronic patients. This is...
GMC’s MBBS gets MCI threat
After derecognising two PG courses at GMC Srinagar, the MCI has threatened to derecognise the basic MBBS degree of GMC Srinagar for deficiencies in...
