14 years on, Baramulla''s dream hospital still building

Wednesday , 4 March '09

Dreams attached to the new hospital have started fading and many believe that this hospital will take another two decades to complete.

Trauma centre another disaster in the making?

Wednesday , 4 March '09

J-K''s showpiece healthcare institute, the upcoming Institute of Traumatology and Allied Super Specialties will end up as another no-use city hospital if the flawed polices of the administration get implemented.

State's only eye bank closed down in J&K

Tuesday , 3 March '09

After the kidney transplant racket was busted in Gurgaon last year, the first thing Jammu and Kashmir government did was to close down its one of a kind eye bank at the Government Medical College, Jammu.

This district hospital is a big primary health centre

Monday , 2 March '09

The district hospital in Baramulla is suffering from shortage of both doctors and equipment. Doctors are lost to private practice and equipment to lack of doctors.

MCI asks GMC Jammu to stop admission of MD students

Monday , 2 March '09

Facing staff shortage, Medical Council of India has asked the state government to stop admitting students to the 3-year degree in MD Paediatrics with the Government Medical College and Hospital.

Valley hospitals' ambulances lack basic life support

Saturday , 28 February '09

Mir''s father is writhing in pain as he bleeds profusely and there are little chances that he may survive in absence of the emergency medical aid.

Maternity care in Kashmir cries out under overload

Friday , 27 February '09

When Anbumani Ramadoss promised Rs 50 crore for up gradation of Kashmir's only maternity facility the Lal Ded Hospital – in 2007, there was hope for change. Two years later, even that hope has died.

Kashmir''s district hospitals in urgent need of upgrade

Thursday , 26 February '09

To put the health care system in Kashmir back on track, the government urgently needs to make District Hospitals operational and thus decentralize the otherwise Srinagar-centric healthcare.

What ails the Valley''s only children''s hospital?

Thursday , 26 February '09

The only tertiary childcare hospital in the valley that caters to children of the age group 0-15 years has been downsized from 175 beds to 135 beds.

Lack of doctors cripples Jammu''s GMC

Thursday , 26 February '09

In this hospital, where doctors have often been accused of negligence one frequently witnesses quarrels between doctors and the attendants of the patients.

Clinic for govt employees shut down in Jammu

Thursday , 26 February '09

The state's first health clinic which was to cater exclusively to needs of the government employees and was opened in the Government Medical College, Jammu has long been shut.

SKIMS muzzles criticism with ad blitz

Wednesday , 25 February '09

For the past more than a week now, the administration of the valley's lone tertiary care hospital is issuing advertisements worth lakhs of rupees to portray a positive image of the institute and calls for 'restraint''.

Valley's children hospital suffers from lack of cleanliness

Wednesday , 25 February '09

The Valley's only children hospital is in dire need of cleaning but shortage of sweepers and almost no cleaning material makes things worse.

Surgeries can wait for Jammu''s GMC

Wednesday , 25 February '09

It is only in case of emergencies that the patients get operated immediately, for all other surgeries they have to wait for months or even years together.

Kashmir lone children''s hospital craves for facilities

Tuesday , 24 February '09

When the Valley''s lone children''s hospital got a fresh building inside G B Panth hospital in 2006 it was thought that its miseries would be over, but this is far from true.

Despite funds, Lal Ded hospital waits for waste management

Tuesday , 24 February '09

Allocated in 2005, Rs 85 lakh meant for the Waste management of the valley's biggest maternity hospital, Lal Ded, is stuck in the Government Medical College's (GMC) J&K bank account.

Lecturers missing classes, students at GMC allege

Tuesday , 24 February '09

The academic training of the medical students at Government Medical College (GMC) is suffering as some senior faculty members prefer their private clinics to teaching in the class.

Bio medical waste at Kashmir's SMHS raises a stink

Tuesday , 24 February '09

The SMHS hospital lacks a proper waste management plan putting the lives of thousands of patients and sanitation workers at risk.

Corruption a way of life in Lal Ded hospital

Tuesday , 24 February '09

In Lal Ded hospital, valley's only maternity hospital, corruption is not an evil but an institution. There are set rates of bribes for everything in the hospital.