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Unhygienic conditions, lack of proper cleanness, no separate toilets and hand washing facilities with poor management put lives of patients and attendants in risk

There is dearth of staff and we are managing things properly but some miscreants are blowing things out of proportion: Principal GMC Dr. Ruby

Baramulla: Amid rise in Covid-19 positive cases in district Baramulla, patients admitted in COVID-19 ‘Wellness’ centre established at Indoor Sports Stadium Baramulla and their attendants allege that they are being treated like animals as unhygienic conditions, lack of proper cleanness, no separate toilets and hand washing facilities with poor management of patient care by the doctors and paramedics has put their lives into jeopardy.

“I am attending my mother here, since DC Baramulla visited the Covid-19 center no one bother to do any cleanness or sanitation of this Covid- care hospital. The risk of contracting the virus while attending a Covid patient is extremely high for al as attendants are not provided any guidelines and protective gear,” said Sheikh Shahzad.

“Attendants change like anything and relatives of patients without any proper protective gear are being allowed to enter the ward at will. There are no guidelines for the attendants, no one to brief them about the sensitivity of the issue, no one to guide them through and no one to regulate the flow of people in a ward full of COVID patients. Is this the universal COVID protocol?” asked Shahzad

Last year the arrangements were better and things were handed much better way but COVID-19 mitigation measures undertaken by the authorities this time are comparatively very poor. The pathetic condition of Covid-19 center was brought into notice of DDC Chairperson Safeena Beigh who herself made surprise visit to the center to check ground reality.

“See our condition, are we animals?  Today we are infected tomorrow would be your turn. Don’t treat us like cattle as there has been no cleanness since DC Baramulla visited the Covid-19 center,” yelled an elderly woman Covid patient in the center.

Situation turned ugly when a doctor who has been appointed as Nodal Officer Covid-19 center Indoor Stadium Baramull allegedly snatched phone of a senior video journalist Sheikh Dawood who works for DDK and Aaj Tak when he was recording the grievances and ordeal of the attendants and patients.

“My phone was snatched by Dr. Yasir who is Nodal Officer of the Covid hospital in Baramulla when I was discharging my professional duty. People in the Covid hospital face grave problems and issues as there is mismanagement,” senior video journalist Sheikh Dawood said.

He added that matter was brought into the notice of Principal GMC Baramulla Principal GMC Baramulla Dr Ruby Reshi but she didn’t pay any heed.

When contacted Principal GMC Baramulla Dr Ruby Reshi, there is dearth of staff and we are managing things properly but some miscreants are blowing things out of proportion.  

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SRINAGAR, APRIL 26 :

Amid “alarming surge” in COVID-19 infection cases, Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal on Monday ordered that filing as well as hearing of cases in the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir as well as in the District and Subordinate Courts and Tribunals shall be conducted through Virtual Mode till May 15.

As per an order, the Chief Justice has directed that the entry of litigants, public and clerks of the Advocates into the Court premises from the very outer gate shall be strictly prohibited in both wings of the High Court.

“For filing of cases, Registrars Judicial of both wings of the High Court shall create a dedicated email address of their respective filing counters and notify the same to the advocates/litigants by making it available on the website of the High Court.”

‘Ordinarily Before Notice’ matters shall be taken up by each Bench unless urgency in respect of any ‘After Notice’ matter is shown to the satisfaction of the Bench concerned, the order reads.

“Physical hearing in respect of any listed matter will be at the discretion of the Bench concerned subject to the satisfaction of the Bench regarding extreme urgency involved in such matter and thereafter such case shall be taken up for physical hearing on the date fixed by the Bench” reads the order, a copy of which lies with GNS.

“On account of virtual hearing, entry of lawyers in the High Court premises is not required unless any advocate is permitted for physical hearing in any extremely urgent matter.”
In order to decongest the sections/offices/Courts, the Chief Justice said the officials shall be permitted to function in batches with 50 percent reduction on rotation basis.

The roster in this regard, shall be formulated by the Registrar Judicial of the concerned wing.”

The officials, who as per the roster are not on duty in the office, shall not leave the station and shall remain available on telephone and electronic means of communication at all times.

Regarding District and Subordinate Courts and Tribunals in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, the Chief Justice ordered that entry of litigants, public and clerks of the Advocates into the Court premises from the very outer gate shall be strictly prohibited. “For filing of cases, the Presiding Officers shall create a dedicated email address of their respective courts and make it available to the advocates/litigants by posting the same on the website of their District Courts concerned or through any appropriate electronic mode.”

The Pr. District & Sessions Judges, the Chief Justice said, shall categories the emergent nature of cases of their respective courts and the courts subordinate to them which shall be taken up for hearing through virtual mode. “Physical hearing in respect of any listed matter will be at the discretion of the Judge concerned subject to the satisfaction of the Judge regarding extreme urgency involved in such matter.”

In order to decongest the sections and offices of the Courts, the Chief Justice ordered that the officials working in the Subordinate Courts shall be permitted to function in batches with 50 percent reduction on rotation basis, he said.

“The roster in this regard, shall be formulated by the Presiding Officer of the Court. The officials, who as per the roster are not on duty in the office, shall not leave the station and shall remain available on telephone and electronic means of communication at all times.”

“The staff on duty in courts and the counsel, if any permitted for physical hearing, shall take necessary precautions, ensure physical distancing, wearing of mask and observance of SOPs and guidelines issued by the respective Governments from time to time.” (GNS)

Many centres established last year come up alive again; these centres will have oxygen facility too, says ADC sgr.

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SRINAGAR, APRIL 26 :

The district administration Srinagar has established a COVID-19 center for emergency in Srinagar in wake of the spike in the number of positive cases. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Muhammad Aijaz Asad told that a COVID-19 center for emergency has been set up at Indoor Stadium.

Meanwhile, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Srinagar, Syed Muhammad Hanief Balkhi while giving details in this regard said that the patients with mild symptoms will be accommodated in the COVID-19 centres including at Indoor Stadium.

“Like previous year, many COVID-19 centres have been established again at Indoor Stadium, Sanat Nagar Marriage hall, Kashmir University Zakura campus, NIT Srinagar and Haj house,” he said.Besides beds, he said that oxygen facility will also be made available at these COVID-19 centre.

SRINAGAR, APRIL 26 :

Two persons were arrested along with two Chinese grenades in Boniyar area of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday, officials said.

They said that the duo was arrested at a naka (checkpoint) by a joint team of police and security forces.

The arrested persons have been identified as Liyaqat Ahmad Kakro son of Showkat Ahmad of Nambla Uri and Akhtar Ahmad Mir son of Hafizullah Mir of Barnate Boniyar at present Trikanjan Boniyar.

Confirming it, a police officer told hear that a case (FIR No 30/2021) under section 7/25 Arms Act has been registered in police station Boniyar. “Further investigations are underway,” the officer added.

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SRINAGAR, APRIL 26 :

A 32-year-old man was among ten more persons who succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said on Monday.

They said that seven of the fresh deaths were reported from Kashmir Valley, including three persons aged between 45 to 60 years. Three deaths due to the virus were reported from Jammu last night.

They said the 32-year-old man from Shopian was admitted on April 15 at SMHS hospital and was suffering with bilateral community acquired pneumonia.

A 45-year-old man from Muslim Peer area of north Kashmir’s Sopore town also died at SMHS hospital, a week after he was admitted with bilateral CAP, the officials told GNS.

A 50-year-old woman from Qamarwari Srinagar, admitted on April 21 with Bilateral CAP also died at SMHS hospital, they said.

A 59-year-old man from Brain Nishat Srinagar, admitted to SMHS hospital with bilateral CAP, succumbed six days after he was admitted, they said.

An 82-year-old man from Pampore in Pulwama district died at the hospital, four days after he was admitted with bilateral CAP, they said.

An 85-year-old man from Safapora Bandipora died at SKIMS Soura, five days after he was admitted to the tertiary care hospital ahdn diagnosed to be suffering “bilateral Covid Pneumonia”, they said.

A 75-year-old man from Tangmarg died two days after he was admitted to the hospital with “critical Covid pneumonia with Hypothyroidism with BHP.”

Three deaths were reported from Jammu last night, taking the overall fatality count to 2157 in J&K—817 in Jammu and 1340 in Kashmir, they added. (GNS)

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BAGHDAD, Iraq —

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients.

Negligence on the part of hospital authorities has been blamed for the Saturday night fire, which initial reports suggest was caused when an oxygen cylinder exploded in the ward of Ibn al-Khatib hospital. Iraq’s prime minister fired key hospital officials hours after the catastrophic incident.

Among the dead were at least 28 patients on ventilators battling severe symptoms of the virus, tweeted Ali al-Bayati, a spokesman of the country’s independent Human Rights Commission. The commission is a semi-official body.

Firefighters rushed to battle the flames that raged across the second floor of the hospital. Civil defense teams put out flames until the early hours of the morning.

Ambulances transported dozens of wounded. The Health Ministry said at least 200 people were rescued from the scene.

Doctors at the scene were frazzled by the chaos unfolding around them. They said numerous burned bodies were carried out by paramedics from the hospital floor.

By midday Sunday, relatives were still searching anxiously for unaccounted for loved ones.

Please, two of my relatives are missing. … I am going to die (without news about them),” posted a young woman on social media after a fruitless search for her family members. “I hope someone can help us find Sadi Abdul Kareem and Samir Abdul Kareem, they were in the ICU.”

The fire came as Iraq grapples with a severe second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Daily virus cases now average around 8,000, the highest since Iraq began recording infection rates early last year. At least 15,200 people have died of coronavirus in Iraq among a total of at least 100,000 confirmed cases.

In response to the fire, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi fired the director-general of the Baghdad Health Department in the al-Rusafa area, where the hospital is located. He also fired the director of Ibh al-Khatib Hospital and its director of engineering and maintenance, according to a statement from the Health Ministry and his office.

After the fire first broke out, Al-Khadhimi held an emergency meeting at the headquarters of the Baghdad Operations Command, which coordinates Iraqi security forces, according to a statement on his Twitter account.

In the meeting he said the incident amounted to negligence.

“Negligence in such matters is not a mistake, but a crime for which all negligent parties must bear responsibility,” he said. He gave Iraqi authorities 24 hours to present the results of an investigation.

U.N. envoy to Iraq Jeannine Hennis-Plasschaert expressed “shock and pain” over the incident in a statement and called for stronger protection measures in hospitals.AP

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SRINAGAR, APRIL 25,:

In its continuous efforts to sensitize the masses about controlling the highly contagious Coronavirus, the J&K Police has been organizing several public awareness drives, interaction programmes, distribution of masks, public announcements and distribution of pamphlets across Kashmir.

A police spokesperson said that keeping in view the recent daily surge in the number of cases in Kashmir Valley, Police in its efforts to implement Covid-19 guidelines strictly have arrested 9 persons in the last 24 hours, lodged 4 FIRs and also realized the fine to the tune of Rs 122,750 from 992 people for violating the rules. Moreover, 12 vehicles were also seized for violating the restriction orders in Budgam.

Police Spokesperson said that community members are once again requested to cooperate with the Police in containing the spread of Coronavirus by following the SOPs for the safety of the people. The special drive shall remain continue throughout all the districts of Kashmir Valley to strengthen the safety measures. (KNT)

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SRINAGAR, APRIL 25 :

The authorities has ordered closure of all paid public parks in Jammu and Kashmir amid surge in covid-19 cases.

“Due to the prevailing COVID situation in J&K, State Executive Committee, in exercise of the powers conferred up on it under section 24 of Disaster Management Act,2005, hereby orders that all paid public parks in the J&K shall remain closed for visitors till further orders,” official said.

A record 2381 people tested positive for novel coronavirus while 21 persons succumbed to the virus in the Jammu and Kashmir in last 24 hours. (GNS)

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JAMMU, APRIL 25:

A man was arrested for allegedly killing his 20-year-old wife who was found hanging inside a shed in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir about two weeks ago, police said on Sunday.

Mangal Singh, a resident of Mallikot village, was arrested after the interim medical report of his wife Sita Devi revealed that her death was not a suicide but a murder, a police official said.

Devi was found hanging inside a goat shed at her house on April 14 and her in-laws tried to pass it as a case of suicide, the official said, adding that preliminary investigation pointed towards some domestic dispute as a motive behind the murder.

He said police were suspicious from the day one and questioned several persons before the interim medical report helped them in concluding that the woman had not committed suicide but her body was hanged to cover up the crime.

The official said inquest proceedings were converted into a murder case and further investigation was underway.—(PTI)

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SRINAGAR, APRIL 25,

The University of Kashmir has postponed all its offline PG and UG examinations till May 2, 2021 in view of the prevailing circumstances, even as it decided that the main campus shall continue to remain closed upto and including Wednesday (April 28, 2021).

The decisions to this effect were taken after detailed deliberations over the prevailing circumstances at a high-level meeting of the varsity’s advisory committee, chaired in online mode by Prof Neelofar Khan.

The meeting however decided that online classes, as already notified, shall continue to be held by the teaching departments.

The meeting, among others, was attended by top KU functionaries including Dean Academics Prof Shabir A Bhat, Dean Colleges Prof GM Sangmi, Registrar Dr Nisar A Mir, Controller of Examinations Prof Irshad A Nawchoo, Dean Behavioural Sciences and Chief Proctor Prof Showket A Shah, in-charge Director IT and SS Dr Maroof Naeem Qadri, Special Secretary to Vice-Chancellor Dr Tanveer A Shah and Joint Registrar Dr Ashfaq A Zarri.