SRINAGAR: A young doctor has died in his room in Srinagar. Though the death is attributed to a cardiac arrest, it is not confirmed by health authorities. Identified as Mohammad Rashid Ahanger, 28, he was a resident of Model Town Sopore.
SRINAGAR: Right now as the world is desperately trying to contain the impact of the Delta variant of the virus behind Covid19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has detected a potentially much dangerous variant and named it Omicron.
Plague like many other epidemics got imported into Kashmir. A Mitra, Kashmir’s erstwhile Chief Medical Officer of Kashmir treated the plague-infected and tackled the epidemic for the government in 1903 while keeping a detailed record of the history.
In 14 months, Jammu Kashmir Lost 14 Doctors To Covid19
These are five of the six Kashmir doctors who contracted Covid19 and could not survive.
So far, six doctors lost their lives in 2021. Two of them belonged to Jammu, three to the Chenab Valley region and one to Kashmir. All the five Jammu doctors died within three days.
The three Pir Panchal valley doctors who died within 24 hours were identified Dr Tahir Mirza, Dr Mohammad Akram Malik, and Dr Basharat Hussain Shah. One of them had retired as Chief Medical Officer.
Dr Naveed Bashir Runiyal who died of Covid-19
They were followed by two Jammu doctors Dr ML Sharma of Karan Bagh Gadigarh (died in GMC Jammu) and Dr MK Raina of Trikuta Nagar, who passed away at ASCOMS Sidhra.
The pandemic has forced the students enrolled with offshore medical schools to study virtually from home. This is putting a question mark over their competence as future doctors, reports Farzana Nisar It is 6 am and red-headed Sheezan Sabzar, a 22-year-old MBBS student of International School of Me.