Deployed To Manage Covid19, Intern Docs Seek Respectable Stipend
Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: The medical interns at the Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar are demanding they be treated at par with other healthcare workers and have sought incentives that Lt Governor Manoj Sinha had announced for frontline health workers on May 3. These doctors are working at the forefront amidst the deadly virulent second wave of Coronavirus.
Lt Governor addressing the first batch of MBBS students of GMC Doda
Lowest on the ladder of delivering patient care, these greenhorns have been excluded from incentives despite working day and night during the pandemic and acting as a supplement to the healthcare workforce in dealing with the surging load of patients.
SRINAGAR: Officials stated on Wednesday that 53 arrested Rohingyas tested positive for COVID-19 during a special three-day testing session at a detention centre in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district.
Covid Priority
Riyaz Wani
Relatives and volunteers carry the body of a Covid-19 victim from the ambulance for last rites at a cremation ground in Srinagar, on Tuesday 25 May 2021. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
Jammu and Kashmir still continues to record the Covid-19 cases in the region of 3000 which is three times more than the peak last year. An average of over 50 people are dying every day, more of them surprisingly in Jammu, even when more than double the region’s cases are witnessed in Kashmir. This has pushed the healthcare infrastructure to the breaking point and further rise in infections could create chaos akin to the one being witnessed in New Delhi.
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir has so far reported eight suspected mucormycosis (black fungus) cases while one more suspected person has died so far, officials told local news gatherer GNS on Wednesday. The disease is nothing new and existed already.
SRINAGAR: With the world battling Covid-19 as thousands of doctors and paramedics in J&K, have been braving odds in their fight against the Covid-19 Pandemic since it hit the country in March last year (2020).