Health

Jammu and Kashmir Government accorded sanction to the shifting of the Chest Disease Hospital to GB Panth Hospital after assessing the functionality of all vital aspects.

Scores of cases are getting reported every day in Kashmir where people face food poisoning after consumption of Wazwaan or other food items.

A Primary Health Centre (PHC) is functioning from a three-room Panchayat in Arihal village of Pulwama district.

Deputy Drug Controller Kashmir said that people need not panic as the cough syrups, regarding which the WHO had issued an alert, were manufactured for The Gambia only.

Children’s nutritional status in Jammu and Kashmir has worsened in the last four years, a national survey has revealed.

The Directorate of Health Services Kashmir said that some hospital administrators are allowing specialists and doctors to take night-off which is against norms.

The government’s proposed move to pool 50% post-graduate seats from GMC and all seats of SKIMS is going to affect health care services in Jammu and Kashmir.

Director Health Services Kashmir Mushtaq Ahmad Rather said that there is nothing to worry about and the viral infection is common and does not need any treatment.