COVID SURGE
The rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir are facing a steep rise in the spread of the corona virus even as the administration grappled with an acute shortage of vaccine to inoculate the vulnerable population. Most of the rural areas are witnessing the spread of the covid-19 virus. According to a recent media report in […]
Rural healthcare
Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha has recently decided to focus on giving better health care to the people living in villages of Jammu and Kashmir. Though the immediate response because of the growing covid positive cases in rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir. The government is also keen to strengthen the health infrastructure in these areas. […]
Covid situation
Covid-19 second wave has engulfed most of the districts in Jammu and Kashmir and the positive cases on daily basis are only increasing despite restrictions and curfew. Recently the government said that the mortality rate is likely to remain the same or increase in the next few days. The fatalities in this pandemic wave […]
Jailed people
Government of Jammu and Kashmir is going to release many jailed people because of the current wave of pandemic as the covid 19 has infected many jail inmates also. Recently in a big development Jammu and Kashmir High Court has intervened in this matter and has quoted the Supreme Court guidelines for the release of […]
Economic depression
While the government has decided to extend the corono curfew by another week in Jammu and Kashmir lot of families have started the feeling the brunt of the situation. Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed an economic depression from the past several years as there has no any tourist season either because of clampdown post August […]
Covid victims
Many social organizations, NGO’s and Masjid committees in the localities of Kashmir are trying to help those families who have suffered losses due to the covid-19 infection. Apart from arranging oxygen cylinders, oxygen concentrators and medicines for poor and needy families, these social organizations have been very helpful to these families as many of them […]
Seeking cooperation
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha recently took a step in the right direction when he talked to senior politicians of Jammu and Kashmir seeking their cooperation to fight the pandemic. According to the media reports Lt Governor has stressed on the role of public representatives to fight the second wave of covid-19 and said that their […]
Court intervene
Problems are becoming more and more visible with each passing day about the growing covid positive cases and about the problems being faced by many covid positive cases in their home. There is scarcity of oxygen cylinders while the social organizations and NGOs who have been working selflessly on the ground are also not having […]
Additional bed capacity
In order to increase the bed capacity not only in covid designated hospitals but also the additional bed capacity to cater to the need of growing pandemic patients, LG Manoj Sinha has directed the administration to keep ready additional 1050 beds with oxygen support within a week in Kashmir Division. Increased bed capacity with oxygen […]
Oxygen supply
In order to kill the shortage of the oxygen in the covid designated hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir, the authorities are trying to make functional many oxygen plants so that the supply chain is not broken. For this purpose DC recently visited hospitals to see for himself what is happening on the ground and what […]