Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole has ordered resumption of health services at private hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres by Tuesday except for COVID19 patients, or even those who have symptoms of the disease. This will offer relief to thousands of patients whose medical treatment was held up since a month, when work in all private […]
Govt and pvt hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres, CHCs, PHCs, SDHs ordered to resume work SRINAGAR: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole has directed all district administrators and the Health Directorate to resume the functioning of non-Covid19 hospitals and health centres, including private hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and diagnostic centres. “All the non-Covid hospitals, Sub District Hospitals, […]
Srinagar: Another batch of Kashmiri students who were halted as a preventive measure for containment of COVID 19 over a month at various locations in the country arrived in Srinagar on Friday, an official said. The students have been airlifted from Rajastan’s Jaisalmer where they were under quarantine since their arrival from Iran on March […]
SRINAGAR: Another batch of Kashmiri students who were halted for more than a month at various locations in the country arrived in Srinagar on Friday. The students have been airlifted from Rajastan’s Jaisalmer where they were under quarantine since their arrival from Iran on March 14. They were tested and declared negative. An official at […]
SRINAGAR: A group of Kashmir-based innovators in collaboration with Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) have developed a low-cost device that can be used instead of ventilators in providing respiratory support. The prototype of the machine, which has been developed at Design Innovation Centre (DIC) of IUST, is successfully running in the laboratory, said […]
SRINAGAR: Even in this all-encompassing lockdown, life has not come to standstill in the human settlements within and along the Dal Lake. People, as they would do pre-Covid times, come out of their homes and huddle, bustle, and trade from early in the morning. There is no disruption caused to the 100-year-old floating gardens that […]
'I am ill, so is my wife. I wanted to be at home with her'
SRINAGAR: Top Kashmir hotelier Mushtaq Ahmad Chaya, who was booked by police for leaving red zone in Jammu to travel to Srinagar on Friday, has been put under quarantine at a hotel here for a period of 14 days. Chaya confirmed to Kashmir Reader that he has been put in quarantine at a hotel and […]
SRINAGAR: Weddings and engagement ceremonies that were scheduled at this time of year are either being postponed or held in a “modified form”. While some families have altogether postponed the weddings with the hope that the situation will turn normal soon, others have opted to postpone only the grand function but not the essential rituals. […]
SRINAGAR: The late Abdul Majeed died during the first days of the coronavirus lockdown. His funeral was attended by less than 20 people, and congregational prayers were not held at all. Majeed during his life had led funeral prayers at gatherings as large as 3,000. Three weeks into his death, his grave is yet to […]
SRINAGAR: A philanthropy organisation based in Srinagar, Athrout is accelerating its efforts to combat Covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir and has so far donated scores of ventilators, oxygen concentrators and other aid kits to the hospitals to save the lives. Recently, it has offered six ventilators to Shere Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) taking the […]