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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.

Virtual Trade

With the Covid-19 pandemic dictating a new regime, most of the activities of life are getting into virtual mode. Owing to the communication blockade,...

A Covid Spring

A year later when the economic forces are fighting to undo the impact Kashmir took in the last two years, the contagion is ferociously...

Failing The Education Test

by Riyaz Wani The charges extracted from the students should be in direct proportion to the quality of the services rendered and to the extent...

Contagion And Classroom

Coinciding with encouraging visitor footfalls, the return of the seasonal workforce and the traders, the Government reopened schools after 19 months. An elaborate exercise...

Zoom Courts

Forced to go virtual, the courts in Kashmir found the going tough during the lock-down in 2020, reports Saima Bhat In July 2020, Mohammad Sultan, 56,...

Tourists Return?

After 18 months of hiatus, the tourist footfalls have started surging in Kashmir. Insiders in the hospitality sector believe that if Gulmarg crowds are...

Vaccine Hesitancy

As Covid-19 vaccination gathers pace in Kashmir, a section of people are sounding cautious not knowing that sixty per cent of vaccines consumed globally...

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...

Pandemic’s Emotional Toll

In Kashmir, Covid-19 hasn’t infected and killed people alone. It has broken families or pushed them into crises that are unlikely to settle. Saima...

Losing The Heart

The sudden death of reporter Mudasir Ali has not only spotlighted the stresses and insecurities in media but opened up the issues of heart...

State of Health

The National Family Health Survey-5 that was released last week offers a clear improvement in the overall health of women and the child and...

What Is The New Variant Of Coronavirus And How Dangerous Is It?

A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in parts of the...

Why Routine Non Communicable Diseases Are Killing More People, Even In Kashmir?

by Aasia Hassan Sooner or later this pandemic will be over, but the deadly and silent pandemic of Non-Communicable Diseases will persist While the world is...

Covid Combatants

Around 1100 health workers in Kashmir contracted the infection, fought it and recovered, unlike the five doctors who died. Preoccupied with managing Covid-19 and...

Cancer’s Covid-19 Overlap

Covid-19 scare jammed life and people started avoiding hospitals. What happened to cancer patients? Saima Bhat visited Kashmir’s major cancer treatment facilities to get...