2,000 new posts in health sector in Kashmir

November 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Women in Delhi are catching up with men in an unusual field -- avoiding burn injuries. A positive trend has reduced the burn injury burden by over 40 percent in the national capital.

November 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's healthcare sector is expected to grow at 23 percent annually to become a $77-billion industry by 2012, a report released Wednesday said. According to the report, jointly prepared by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) and Yes Bank, India's healthcare sector has grown at 9.3 percent annually during 2000-09.

November 17th, 2009 JAMMU - The Indian Army's Northern Command hospital at Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir has successfully performed bone marrow transplant in a cancer patient, becoming the first institution in the state to offer this specialised treatment, officials said Tuesday. The process was performed on a 50-year-old serving soldier, suffering from multiple myeloma (a cancer of the white blood cells), Northern Command spokesman Maj.

November 15th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - There has been a sudden surge in the number of positive cases of influenza A (H1N1) virus in Chandigarh hospitals during the first fortnight of November. By Oct 31, the total number of positive cases reported in the city were 57.

November 8th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Another doctor has tested positive for influenza A (H1N1) virus in Chandigarh, taking the number of such cases to 62, health officials said here Sunday. The 36-year-old doctor runs a coaching centre for MBBS entrance exam.

October 24th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The Jammu and Kashmir government Saturday suspended 28 doctors and decided to appoint others, in the wake of the junior doctors' agitation that has been going on for 15 days now. "Interviews for the new appointments will start here from Monday," an official of the state health department said here.

October 13th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The junior doctors' strike in Jammu and Kashmir entered the fourth day Tuesday, adversely affecting healthcare facilities in the valley. In Srinagar's largest SMHS Hospital, no surgery has been done during the last three days as the junior doctors struck work Saturday due to alleged pay anomalies.

October 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Doctors in the cosmetic sector may have been hit and elective surgeries reduced, but doctors in the US had otherwise been insulated from the recession, said Dr Vinod Shah, president of the American Association of Physcians of Indian Origin (AAPI). Describing doctors and the healthcare sector as recession proof, Shah said: "Nobody can skip a doctor.

October 5th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Patients are suffering at Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital in Jammu and Kashmir, as junior doctors are on a strike protesting against the alleged indifferent attitude of the State Government towards their long-pending demands. Around 4000 junior doctors are participating in the indefinite strike and their demand includes a hike in pay grades, time bound promotion for doctors after five, ten and fifteen years and formulation of law that ensures action against persons assaulting any health official on duty.

October 3rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Out of curiosity or out of stress, hundreds of people have been visiting a yoga camp in Srinagar. In the last few years, yoga's popularity has taken off in the Kashmir Valley, thanks to a renewed fitness and health interest, particularly among the youth.

September 19th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The health department has issued special instructions to school managements here after positive cases of influenza A (H1N1) virus were detected among students of two leading schools. Depending on the circumstances, the schools should reschedule the examinations.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Admitting that the government expenditure on healthcare has been less than desired, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Monday said underfunding by the public sector over the years has made it expensive and less accessible. Years of prolonged underfunding of the public health system and dependence on the private sector has pushed the cost of healthcare and also affected access, Azad said while addressing a conference organised by the industry lobby Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) here.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Monday invited the private sector to set up medical colleges along with government district hospitals in backward, hilly and northeastern states of India - a reformative step that private players termed as "music to ears". "We will soon allow the private sector to set up medical colleges along with our district hospitals in backward states, hilly areas and the northeastern region," Azad said here at a healthcare meet organised by industry lobby Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will allow the private sector to set up medical colleges in backward states, hilly areas and the northeast region, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Monday. "We will allow the private sector to set up medical colleges in backward states, hilly areas and the northeastern region," Azad said here at a healthcare meet organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), an industry lobby.

September 7th, 2009 Bale Chak Village (Tarn Taran) (Punjab), (ANI): Poultry farming in Punjab, which suffered heavy losses and closures during terrorism days and recently following the Bird flu scare, is now faced with another problem in the form of heavy tax duties. The Jammu and Kashmir state has imposed heavy tax duties on the import of the poultry birds from other states, as it has increased Tax on Poultry birds from Rs.