NHM ‘Analysis’ Say Delay In Testing, Hospitalization Proves Fatal In Covid19 Patients Umar Mukhtar
SRINAGAR: National Health Mission (NHM) in Jammu and Kashmir has released an analysis of Covid-19 mortality in Jammu and Kashmir. It is based on the data collected by the public health system between April 15 and May 12, 2021.
Mohammad Yasin Choudhary, IAS
During this period, the NHM said 806 Covid19 deaths took place – 31 in Kashmir and 495 in Jammu. It was, however, not immediately known why this particular patch was taken for the analysis.
On basis of how and when the Covid19 patients died, the NHM has made the following observations:
Two Doctors Die of Covid19
Dr Naveed Bashir Runiyal who died of Covid-19
They were identified by Jammu based newspaper
Daily Excelsior as Dr ML Sharma of Karan Bagh Gadigarh and Dr MK Raina of Trikuta Nagar; Dr Sharma passed away in the GMC Jammu and Dr Raina at ASCOMS Sidhra,” the newspaper said.
The region had already lost three doctors a day before. Dr Tahir Haroon Mirza, 51, who was posted at an emergency hospital in the Akhnoor area of Jammu, died on Thursday at the Command Hospital Udhampur; Former Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Poonch Dr Mohammad Akram Malik died of Covid at Narayana Hospital Katra; and Dr Busharat Hussain Shah. With two more doctors dying of the disease, it has gone up to five. The region lost at least two doctors in 2020 as well.
As Covid19 Got Ferocious In NCR, Two Kashmiris Got Into Plasma Service
SRINAGAR: As the Covid-19 surge continues non-stop, it is a hospital bed, ICU’s and Plasma’s that is the top priority in Delhi and elsewhere. This frightening situation led to the creation of a heart-warming story rooted in Kashmir.
A Kashmiri Pandit and a Kashmiri Muslims have joined hands to come up to support Covid-19 patients in Delhi-NCR.
Adnan Shah, 19, is a journalism student from Kupwara. Then there is Sanjay Raina, a food entrepreneur who runs a Kashmiri restaurant in Delhi. Since April, the duo is running a Twitter handle @PlasmaNCR that helps people to tweet their plasma requests and highlights them until the match is found.
Lockdown Impacts Infection Curve, Restrictions To Continue Till May 24
Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha chairs the Administrative Council meeting
The decision was taken as a part of the Covid containment measures after a detailed assessment of the present scenario by the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha and members of Covid Task Force during a series of meetings with Deputy Commissioners, SSPs, and other concerned officers.
During the meetings, the Lt Governor sought district-wise feedback on important aspects of the Covid management system pertaining to testing, the impact of corona curfew, hospital referral system, the functionality of oxygen generation plants, availability of Covid dedicated beds, the daily trend of Covid cases, recovery rate etc.
SRINAGAR: As per the recent sequencing data analysis of positive Covid19 patients received from NCDC, New Delhi, B.1.617 variant is responsible for the recent surge in Covid19 cases in the Jammu division, a DIPR spokesman said in Jammu.
Principal and Dean Government Medical College, Jammu, Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma said that the Department of Microbiology at GMC, Jammu besides testing of Covid19 samples is also coordinating with NCDC New Delhi for routine sequencing of positive sample and as per the latest report received from them UK Variant was reported in
>60% samples in March 2021.
However, in April the percentage of UK Variant dropped to 47% and B.1.617 increased from 5.8% to 38%. It is pertinent to mention here that the variant of SARS COV.2 has been observed to originate from a specific geographic location and with time was able to move to other locations of the Globe.