Connect with us

JAMMU & KASHMIR

Exempt medical fraternity, patients, ambulances from highway restriction, demands DAK | KNO

Published

on

kno news

Srinagar, April 04 (KNO) : Calling highway as lifeline for Kashmir, the only road connecting rural network of hospitals with tertiary care hospitals, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Thursday demanded exclusion of medical fraternity and patients from such restrictions. “The government order to close national highway for civilian movement on Wednesdays and Sundays is invariably going to jeopardize the patient care and will increase morbidity and mortality in patients,” president of DAK, Dr Suhail Naik said in a statement issued to KNO. Dr Suhail added that it will be difficult for referred patient to reach to tertiary care hospitals in Srinagar hospitals i.e SMHS or SKIMS, Soura from Districts surrounding Srinagar. General Secretary DAK Dr Owais H Dar said highway is not only for civilian movement but a life line connecting different hospitals of Kashmir. “How can a sick patient from Banihal reach to Medical College Anantnag while such restrictions will be in place? We appeal administration to exclude medical fraternity and patients from such restrictions,” he said. Jammu and Kashmir Doctors Coordination Committee JKDCC convener, Dr Mohamed Yousuf Tak has also appealed government to provide full time accommodation to medical employees inside hospital premises. “It is very hard and difficult for our employees to reach and attend their duties while such restrictions will be imposed on national highway. Majority of our rural health care hospitals don’t have accommodation and is taking heavy brunt on employees,” Tak said. We appeal government to accommodate health employees with respects to their dignity, including their privacy, confidentiality, comfort and autonomy, he added.(KNO)

Trending

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

CEO issues guidelines for Printers, Publishers of J&K | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

General Elections-2024 | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Patients suffer as Nagbal Yousmarg PHC operates from rented building | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Meet Abdul Gaffar Kanihami, the man preserving Kashmiri folk music legacy for decades | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Entire JK lives in Jammu, city deserves quality infrastructure: Ghulam Nabi Azad | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Baramulla admin geared up for free & fair elections: DEO Sherpa | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Ramadan sees surge in street begging across Srinagar, elsewhere | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Young Kulgam writer authors three books, delves into Einstein's Theory of Relativity | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Have collaborated with J&K Police to eradicate drug menace: CCIK | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Jammu and Kashmir Government to Fill Over 12,000 Vacancies to Tackle Unemployment | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Teacher rationalization: | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

Centre sets-up tribunals to decide on ban on Muslim Conference factions | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

J&K admin sabotaging assembly elections, ruling like ‘uncrowned kings’: Omar Abdullah | KNO

TOP STORIES12 hours ago

In 5 years, MHA bans 9 separatist groups in J&K | KNO

TOP STORIES1 days ago

CRPF Sgr Sector wraps up inter-operational battalion tournament with spectacular finale | KNO

TOP STORIES1 days ago

In touch with Centre for more security forces, will ensure optimum utilisation of all forces in LS Polls: DGP Swain | KNO

TOP STORIES2 days ago

BJP will win 400 seats in LS elections: Tarun Chugh | KNO

Copyright © 2021