Top GMC docs take COVID shot
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU/SRINAGAR/ LEH, Jan 22: Four persons including a CRPF personnel died of COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir while 88 tested positive for the virus and 97 others were discharged.
A 49-year-old CRPF jawan hailing from Balaya in Uttar Pradesh and posted at 178 battalion of CRPF died of COVID-19 in the Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu. He was also HIV positive.
A 65-year-old woman from village Gharana in RS Pura tehsil of Jammu died of co-morbidities and pathogen in the same hospital.
A 70-year-old man from village Ramhama Beerwah and an 80-year-old man from Mouchwa Baghi Mehtab in Budgam district died of COVID in Kashmir.
Govind Sharma
JAMMU, Dec 21: The Government of Jammu and Kashmir today formed a UT level committee and also district level committees for management of adverse events of the COVID-19 vaccine, if any.
According to the Government order, Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education Department (H&MED) J&K will be the chairman of the UT level committee while as Director Family Welfare MCH & Immunization J&K will act as vice chairman and Inspector General of Police Jammu/Kashmir, Mission Director NHM J&K, Director Information J&K and Drug Controller J&K will be members of the committee. State Immunization Officer J&K will be convener/member secretary of the committee.