No specialists on night duty at JLNM hospital, critical patients turned away

No specialists on night duty at JLNM hospital, critical patients turned away

Srinagar: The JLNM Hospital, Rainawari is turning away critical patients, mostly pregnant women, during late hours, for want of specialist doctors on duty. According to attendants, pregnant women are worst sufferers because of the lack of specialist doctors in the labour room and other critical areas of the hospital. “A doctor posted in the labour […]

Defunct Analyser at LD Hospital adds to woes of patients

Blood samples sent to SMHS

Srinagar: Patients at Kashmir’s main maternity specialty, Lal Ded Hospital, Srinagar, are facing problems as the Biochemistry Analyser, which carries Liver Function Test is lying defunct, for more than a week now. As a result the blood samples have to be taken to SMHS hospital. Attendants of several patients said that lack of testing facility […]

Family accuses JLNM hospital of negligence causing stillbirth

Srinagar: Srinagar: A Srinagar family has accused the doctors at JLNM Hospital of medical negligence leading after a woman delivered a dead baby at Lal Ded Hospital last week. The 35-year-old Nuzhat Akhtar of Hawal area in Srinagar had a stillbirth at LD Hospital on September 26 hours after she was referred to the maternity […]

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