You are here: IE » Full Coverage »Kashmir Health Scare
There is no labour room here, no emergency, no Intensive Care Unit (ICU), no incinerators, and not even needle destroyers. There is almost nothing to call it a general hospital.
Monday , 23 February '09
The Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh Hospital is one of Jammu's oldest but it also has the dubious distinction of being one of the most overcrowded ones in the state.
Monday , 23 February '09
A group of youngsters under the banner of New Young Blood Organisation came forward to help children with blood cancer. Nearly fifty youths donated blood to use for saving the lives of these children.
Monday , 23 February '09
At the Government Chest Diseases Hospital in Jammu, where biomedical waste including used syringes, is littered just on the hospital’s doorstep.
Friday , 20 February '09
What could be more contrasting? A hospital meant to cure chest diseases, many on account of the excessive smoking, has a vendor at the doorstep, selling cigarettes
Friday , 20 February '09
Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, the hospital's cleaner for over 19 years, says cleaning up of official apathy is as essential as cleaning the corridors.
Thursday , 19 February '09
As employees across the state struck work to press for their demands, SMHS Hospital, the valley's top General Hospital, got paralysed.Thursday , 19 February '09
The Cancer Centre has just one medical physicist to cater to the nearly 100 cancer patients daily who have to receive radiation in the hospital.
Thursday , 19 February '09
The Director of SKIMS hospital, Dr Abdul Hamid Zargar has designated Joint Director of the hospital as Vigilance Officer and asked the practicing doctors to abide by law.
Thursday , 19 February '09
Soiled bandages, polythene bags, dust, medicine cartons and cigarette packets decorate the floor. A beggar has set shop in the corridor outside the small dingy room which is the hospital's emergency ward.
Tuesday , 17 February '09
As if the shortage of staff and lack of infrastructure were not enough, the menace of Unionism is ensuring that the valley's top General Hospital dies a slow death.
Tuesday , 17 February '09
If the administration doesn't care about me why should I care about the patients, a doctor who holds an MD said when asked why he came late to the hospital. 'I am without salary for eleven months.'
Monday , 16 February '09
Another dark winter night has just enveloped Kashmir. The long, dull corridors of Srinagar's Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital appear milky in the soft glow of the white tube-lights.
Saturday , 14 February '09
If evaluated for the infrastructure it functions with, the hospital won't qualify even as a district hospital.
Thursday , 12 February '09
This wait is painful and dangerous but her prolonged stay in the hospital before the surgery and prescribed tests will, however, make a good business for several doctors at this premier institute – who make money by diverting patients to particular private testing centres for expensive tests.Tuesday , 10 February '09
The Cardio Vascular thoracic surgery, the ward 1A of the hospital is short of basic drugs like Voveran (pain killer), buscopan(anti spasmodic), dexmethasone(steroid), ciprofloxacin an antibiotic, albendazole(de-worm agent).
Tuesday , 10 February '09
One of the paramedics comes out to inform Ghulam Ahmad Ganaie's attendants that he is being catherised and needs a balloon which is not available with the hospital.
Saturday , 7 February '09
One of Kashmir's top hospitals forced its patients - some of them operated recently - out into the corridor, leaving them to battle the chill.
Saturday , 7 February '09
The diagnostic facilities at Kashmir's premier tertiary care hospital Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences are in total collapse.
Saturday , 7 February '09
It was a suicide threat by a desperate patient that finally got the authorities at Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical sciences to listen to his plea and act.
Epaper
Newsletter
Stocks
Weather
Horoscope
