COVID19: SDH to be Isolation Facility Centre for COVID-19 Patients
Other healthcare facilities also been augmented
KUPWARA: District Administration, Kupwara is making concerted efforts to provide proper health care facilities to COVID-19 patients in the district. For this purpose, Sub District Hospital (SDH), Kupwara, having capacity of 100 beds, has been designated as Isolation Facility Centre (IFC) for COVID-19 patients. The Hospital premises and its adjacent area have been declared red […]
SMC installs 2 decontamination tunnels at SKIMS, sanitizes Eidgah red zone
Several masjids around Eidgah also sanitized
SRINAGAR: Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) installed and made operational two decontamination tunnels at SKIMS, here the other day. The tunnels were installed at two entry points to ensure that the persons visiting hospital including doctors, hospital workers, patients and other attendants get sanitized instantly while entering or leaving the hospital premises. Commissioner SMC, Gazanfar Ali, […]
39 persons discharged after completing two-week quarantine
1811 persons discharged so far after successfully completing isolation period
SRINAGAR: Thirty nine (39) more persons who were shifted into administrative quarantine in Srinagar two weeks ago were discharged Thursday after successfully completing their 14-day quarantine period. Except one all these persons belonged to Srinagar district. Upon being discharged all these persons were ferried home in transportation the administration had arranged for their convenience. Concerned […]
Coronavirus: One more tests positive in Ladakh, total cases reach 4
Leh: One more person has tested positive for coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the total number of cases in the Union Territory to four, a senior government official said on Thursday. Commissioner Secretary (Health) Rigzin Samphel said the patient is from Choshot Yokma area of Leh, which has now been notified as a ‘containment area’ by […]
Two attendees of Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi booked
Blamed for concealing travel history
Jammu: Two persons who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin were booked for allegedly concealing travel history in Udhampur district, officials said Thursday. Upon receiving information from the medical authority, Ramnagar, that two persons have concealed their travel history in order to evade necessary quarantine process, FIRs has been registered against them, […]
Coronavirus: One more tests positive in Ladakh, total cases reach 4
Leh: One more person has tested positive for coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the total number of cases in the Union Territory to four, a senior government official said on Thursday. Commissioner Secretary (Health) Rigzin Samphel said the patient is from Choshot Yokma area of Leh, which has now been notified as a ‘containment area’ by […]
84 samples of Covid-19 suspects including a PSA detenue collected
Srinagar: Over 84 samples of Covid-19 suspects were collected Thursday and among these samples, one belongs to a Srinagar youth detained under Public Safety Act in Srinagar Central Jail. Well placed sources said that over 84 samples of Covid-19 suspects lodged in different quarantine centres were collected at JLNM Rainawari Hospital Srinagar and sent to […]
Won’t allow economic distress to affect poor, destitute: DG Social Welfare
SRINAGAR: As the country continues to remain under the COVID-19 lock down, Director General (DG), Department of Social Welfare Kashmir, Rukhsana Gani Thursday said that the government will not allow the economic distress to affect the poor and destitute living in the Union Territory. To mitigate the sufferings due to COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lock […]
Medicines, drugs available in sufficient quantity: Officials
Say strict action to be initiated against overcharging
SRINAGAR: On the directions of Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, a meeting was convened in the office of the Deputy Drugs Controller Kashmir, with the wholesale Drug Association of Srinagar with regard to the availability of medicines in the district. Similar meetings were also conducted at district level where officers took stock of the availability of medicines […]
People who participated in slain militant’s funeral will be booked: Police
Sopore: Police have started identifying those who participated in the funeral of a slain militant in Sopore in violation to government’s prohibitory orders. Pertinently, hundreds of people participated in the last rites of a slain militant Sajad Nawabi of Jaish-e-Muhammad who was killed in Armpora Sopore gunfight. A senior police official said that the participation […]