Health

In order to ensure better healthcare facilities, the Jammu and Kashmir Government on Friday ordered the cancellation of the attachment of the doctors and paramedical staff.

Amid claims of having a transparent system, the Jammu and Kashmir LG administration has appointed a doctor to a bureaucratic position.

The use of drugs, mainly heroin, is leading to a scary increase in Hepatitis C cases in Jammu and Kashmir as around three among four drug users are Hepatitis C positive.

Jammu and Kashmir Government has devised criteria for making the healthcare institutions junk free and Department of Health is to implement the criteria.

The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday.

Administration in Srinagar and Ganderbal besides Bandipora has made use of face masks mandatory in public places with immediate effect.

In view of the cloudburst at Amarnath Shrine, the Directorate of Health Services Kashmir has cancelled leaves of all staff and has directed them to report immediately.

Construction of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Awantipora is going on at a slow pace, triggering apprehensions that the project may miss deadline.