Health

Jammu & Kashmir Health Care Investment Policy: All You Need to Know

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The Jammu and Kashmir State Administrative Council (SAC) recently has approved the ‘State Health Care Investment Policy-2019’ aimed at promoting private parties and entrepreneurs to set up healthcare infrastructure in the state. The policy is expected to improve accessibility of quality healthcare services to the people, promote establishment of hospital, medical and allied educational infrastructure and establish the state … Read more

‘Save Heart’ comes to rescue of patient at 13,500 ft in Leh

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Doctors have performed successful thrombolysis at an altitude of 13,500 feet at Khaltse Hospital, around 100 km from Leh in the cold desert of Ladakh, on a man who had suffered a heart attack. Thrombolysis is the breakdown of clots in blood vessels by pharmacological means to ensure normal flow of blood. If done within … Read more

Indian Army strives to ensure Waste management in Jammu & Kashmir

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Waste management has long been a rhetoric for successive governments of the state. Till date nothing sufficient has been done to recycle waste in the state. Recently, the Army has set up a waste management complex on the outskirts of the city to make Nagrota Military station “a clean and green formation” . Read below … Read more

Why Does Jammu Have a Drug Problem? The Untold Story

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Drug Jammu report

Written by Heena Tabassum Complying with the increase in the use of drugs among the youth across the rest of the country, Jammu seems to be following suit ardently. The drug de-addiction centre established in the Government Psychiatric Disease Hospital, near Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu, is registering 5-10 cases daily, mostly related to consumption of … Read more

World Aids Day: State has 4,300 HIV-positive patients

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* Jammu and Kashmir has over 4,300 patients, including 131 orphans and 225 widows, have been tested HIV positive in the state so far. *Jammu, having the maximum fluctuating population, has reported the highest number of HIV patients, followed by southern districts of the state —- Kathua and Samba. *According to the J&K State AIDS Control … Read more

Cancer fast spreading its roots in Jammu & Kashmir: Report

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With the state lagging behind in the medical advancements for the timely detection of cancer, the number of cancer cases has been increasing every year. According to the data released by the Indian Council of Medical Research, 16,840 patients with malignancies have been registered till August in the state as compared to 11,815 in 2014. … Read more

TIPS & TRICKS TO QUIT TOBACCO

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Do you want to quit Tobacco? Watch video and find out few simple tips to quit tobacco.

When No Tobacco day is around we read a lot of stuff related to what tobacco in the form of cigarettes, bidi, cigars, khaini, hookah, pipe, pan, pan masala etc leads to human beings. Tobacco may not kill tomorrow but every tobacco addict knows that it will kill them eventually.