Health

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT A team of renowned doctors including interventional cardiologist Dr Mohammad Maqbool Sohil from Paras Hospital Srinagar Thursday addressed a press conference during which they said that the Cardiology Section of the hospital has expertise who are...

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT Doctors at Paras Hospitals, Gurugram were able to reconstruct the skull of a 9-month-old patient born with a rare Apert Syndrome. Dr Sumit Sinha, Director, Neuro & Spine Surgery, Paras Hospitals along with his team were...

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT At least 2169 patients have died within a span of 9 months at SMHS Hospital Srinagar, reveals the official record. These deaths occurred in the hospital from January 2022 to September 2022. The patients have died due...

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha inaugurated the 'J&K Health Conclave' on Mental Health and Non-Communicable Diseases at Srinagar, today. On the occasion, J&K Health and Medical Education Department inked Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Homi Bhabha Cancer...

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT Chest Disease Hospital located in Srinagar - which is the only tertiary pulmonary centre of the Valley and has referrals from all districts falls short of machinery and other equipment. The data reveals that there is a...

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT The Bandipora District Administration, on the directions of Deputy Commissioner, Bandipora,  sealed a medical clinic and Dialysis Unit for operation in violation of medical codes and norms. A team headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Bandipora, Umar...

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT Glenmark Pharmaceuticals announced a price reduction of Trastuzumab for HER2-positive breast cancer, being marketed in India under the brand name ‘ Trumab’. A 440 mg vial of Trumab will be priced at INR 15,749, which makes...

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT Citing the new laws being governed in Jammu and Kashmir after the re-organization of the State of J&K into Union Territory, Government has disengaged 93 Paramedical staff who had been engaged on an academic arrangement basis...

KASHMIR NEWS TRUST #KNT At Childrens’ Hospital Srinagar, 879 neonates died last year, official data reveals. The 500 bedded hospital is located in the Bemina area of Srinagar outskirts. The official data as per the news agency Kashmir News Trust reveals that...

KASHMIR NEWS TRSUT #KNT In the absence of any formal transfer policy, some doctors have been posted for over a decade at one workplace in Kashmir Valley under Nation Health Mission. This practice has badly hit patient care and has...