Meet The Man Who Has The History Of Topping All His Examinations, Everywhere Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Soft-spoken, Dr Mohsin Raj Mantoo, 27, has added many feathers in his cap as he has topped three national-level Super Speciality exams in NEET, AIIMS, and PGI.
Dr Mohsin Raj Mantoo
A resident of Dooru, Anantnag, Mantoo’s continues to ascend to excellence started when he passed his twelfth class from Iqbal Memorial Institute, Anantnag where he secured the first rank in the medical stream of his batch. Subsequently, he qualified entrance to Government Medical College, Srinagar in 2010, where he continued to top in his MBBS.
SRINAGAR: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the top medical research organization is the conducting the third round of national sero-survey for COVID-19 titled ‘National sero-surveillance to monitor the trend of SARS-CoV-2 infection transmission in India: Community-based surveillance’ across 60 districts and 10 hot-spot sites among all states and union territories of the country to see the changing trend of population response to SARS COV-2 infection over these months since the second round was held in July-August this year where the prevalence of IgG antibody titres was found 27.3% among the general population in the Pulwama district.
In the third round, the data will again be collected through app-based and blood samples will be taken to assess immunoglobulin-Gamma (Ig-G) against SARS-CoV-2 which will determine infection in recent past and the body’s immune response to the SARS CoV-2 infection. Each selected site collects data and blood samples of 400 participan
December 14, 2020
District Hospital in J&K’s Poonch district has received 13 ventilators to treat Covid-19 patients but none of the life saving machines is in use. Reason for this is shortage of specialist staff and the lack of continuous oxygen supply. Hospital has just two anaesthetists, one of them who is under transfer has been temporarily retained to deal with the coronavirus patients. There is also no technician to operate the high-end ventilators.
“We have no oxygen generation plant. We only have oxygen cylinders but to fill them we have to send these to Jammu. That is a journey of 7-8 hours,” said Dr Shameema Bhatti, superintendent of the hospital. “And we are in dire need of the oxygen for Covid-19 patients”.
Move to allow Ayurvedic practitioners to perform surgery takes India back to medieval ages It is like asking a car driver to fly a plane, said one doctor amid warnings over the threat to patients
Prime minister Narendra Modi (centre), a keen yogi, has promoted alternative medicine
Credit: Rajesh Kumar/AFP
Nearly half a million doctors across India went out on strike on Friday in protest at a government decision to allow people who have trained in the ancient alternative practice of Ayurveda to perform surgery.
The strike was led by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), which accused the government of putting millions of lives at risk.