Healthcare
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4.8K‘She delivered a baby on the road’: Unending healthcare trauma of tribal Kashmir
Visuals of pregnant women taken out on wooden stretchers from the tribal belts of the valley resurfaced on social media this winter....
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4.7KCold desert’s cancer crusader
Grew up as a struggling farm boy, a Ladakhi doctor lost his mother and many of his tribe members to cervical cancer...
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2.8KDeath of young birth-givers reveals a nutrient-deficient Kashmir
Behind the occasional flying tempers and sudden screams in Kashmir hospitals, the fatal health crisis created by nutritional deficiencies remains the least...
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1.8KKashmir’s 83% healthcare workers opt out of Covid-19 vaccine: DAK
Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said most of the doctors, nurses and paramedical staff in Kashmir are opting out of...
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2.5KIn Kashmir, Tribals at increasing risk of non-communicable diseases
Lack of healthcare, proper nutrition, increasing prevalence of NCDs Srinagar: The routine life for Fatima (name-changed), a 45-year-old Gujjar woman from Kupwara...
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1.3KCovid: 44 test positive in JK, no death reported in last 48 hours
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Monday reported 44 fresh cases of COVID-19 taking the tally to 1,24,550 in the Union Territory, however,...
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5.4K‘Failure of system’: GMC Exposé, PMSSY Scam, and COVID Mismanagement
The purpose of upgrading Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) was not achieved as all the Super Specialties had not been fully established. And...
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2.7KCOVID reinfections, and what it means for vaccine development
Showkat Ahmad from Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir had first contracted the virus in July this year. After remaining asymptomatic, he...
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2.5K1No Accountability: Golden hours being wasted, enquiries ‘for the sake of enquiries’ serving no purpose
As new cases come to fore, older cases of alleged medical negligence are still being probed, with reports of enquiries still to...
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3.5KEnforced Disability: No help in sight for pellet survivors of Kashmir
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed as “a day for all” by the World Health Organisation. But the forcibly...
