The biggest setback of the continuous curfew in Jammu is the helplessness of patients needing immediate medical attention. While traffic remained off roads for the fifth continuous day on Tuesday, patients were at the receiving end. Many chemist shops too had downed their shutters for the entire period as the owners lived far off from … Read more
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Samba district’s Vijaypur on February 3, the much-ambitious project has faced an inordinate delay of three years due to petty politics of the previous PDP-BJP coalition. Going by political controversies surrounding the … Read more
After waiting for, what seemed like eternity, the site for construction of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Vijaypur in Samba district has been cleared of all encumbrances. All the procedure for shifting the nomads from the area has been chalked out under Resettlement Plan and work on the mega project is likely … Read more
There is a grave dearth of doctors in our state. But how few are they? Let’s examine: According to standards set by the World Health Organisation, WHO, the doctor patient ratio should be 1:500 In many western countries, the ratio is a little generous being 1:1000. But in our Jammu & Kashmir, the ratio is … Read more
An RTI application has revealed that over 11000 children and infants have died in Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh, SMGS, Hospital of Jammu, in the last 15 years. In a reply to the RTI application submitted by an activist Rohit Choudhary, the official statement read “The total number of children expired in SMGS Hospital during the … Read more