SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government is quarantining people (for preventing spread of deadly coronavirus) by cramming more than one person in a room where there are no sanitisers, no masks, and no separate washrooms. The conditions seem to be less geared for fighting a pandemic than for paving the way to a disaster. Medically, […]
KALEEM GEELANI SRINAGAR: Four scholars of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) belonging to Kashmir valley who had reportedly fled the quarantine facility at Aligarh were traced on Saturday at their native places and kept in isolated quarantine for fourteen days. The Four PhD scholars from Kashmir had fled from AMU amid quarantine period without informing the […]
Srinagar: octors and critical care health workers have raised concern over the preparedness of government hospitals of J&K to fight the novel coronavirus. They have appealed to the government to keep dedicated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facilities available with ventilators to tackle any escalation of COVID 19 cases. “We need as many ventilators as we […]
SRINAGAR: Doctors fighting the deadly coronavirus at Srinagar hospitals are still working without proper protective measures. The Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) has written a letter to the principal of Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar, pointing out immediate requirements of masks, sanitisers, and temporary residential accommodation within hospitals. “If even one resident ends ups being infected […]
SRINAGAR: In order to ensure comfortable and safe stay of persons arriving back from outside countries and shifted into quarantine facilities, the Srinagar administration has fixed roles and responsibilities of officers assigned to different quarantine centres as incharge of relevant facilities. District Magistrate Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary issuing strict instructions in this regard has […]
SRINAGAR: After three days, several people who had returned from foreign countries and had been put into official quarantine facilities at Haj House, were taken to a hotel and given separate rooms on Saturday. Officials finally shifted today the people kept at Haj House where more than one person was accommodated in a room, to […]
Div Com Kashmir assures drive to start soon
Anantnag: While there has been some activity, vis-à-vis cleanliness and sanitization of public places in view of the COVID-19 outbreak in major towns of Kashmir valley, the rural areas have witnessed no such initiative taken by the government so far. People living in rural areas, particularly in the four districts of south Kashmir are worried […]
Appeals government to restore 4G
Srinagar: In view of COVID-19 scare, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Saturday requested doctors to volunteer for providing online consultations through WhatsApp so that people suffering from general ailments at home have a sign of relief. President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik appealed people to use online phone numbers of specialist doctors without any hesitation. “But it […]
JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, who is overall in-charge of coronavirus control efforts in Kashmir on Saturday convened a meeting here to review the measures being put in place by various departments about prevention and control of Covid-19. The meeting was attended by Mission Director National Health Mission, J&K, Bhupinder Kumar, OSD […]
Srinagar: National Conference President and Member of Parliament from Srinagar Dr Farooq Abdullah on Saturday released Rs One crore from his MPLAD fund to combat the threat of COVID-19 in Kashmir. Out of the released amount, Rs 50 lakh has been earmarked for SKIMS, Srinagar and Rs 25 Lakh each for Ganderbal and Budgam districts. […]