Healthcare

COVID cases on rise in JK, 152 fresh cases reported in last 24 hours

Jammu Kashmir’s coronavirus caseload rose to 12,8,249 as 152 more people tested positive for the infection while one more person succumbed to...

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6-year-old given ‘expired injections’ at Shopian hospital, battling for life

Shopian: A 6-year-old girl is battling for life as doctors at the district hospital Shopian have been allegedly giving her expired injections...

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JK ramping up capacity to administer 3 lakh COVID vaccines per day

Jammu and Kashmir is ramping up capacity to administer three lakh Covid vaccine doses per day and store 50 lakh in cold...

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‘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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Cold 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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Death 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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Kashmir’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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In 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...