DAK demands restoration of internet to hospitals, doctors

Save Heart, Save Brain initiatives suffer badly

Srinagar, Dec 13: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday appealed the government to restore the internet service to hospitals on urgent basis in order to deliver optimum medical services across health institutions.

President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik said the continuous internet blockade after August 05 has made the work of doctors difficult to deliver the optimal health services in the hospitals.

“Delivery of best medical services largely depend on continuous learning process through internet as medical knowledge keeps on rapidly evolving with new emerging diagnostic practices and delivery of patient care,” he said.

He stated that delivery of Ayushman Bharat services that provide free medical services across Jammu and Kashmir to poor people having golden cards has been hampered badly adding the process of availing benefits is internet based.

General Secretary DAK, Dr Owais H Dar said the ‘Save Heart Kashmir’ initiative, a WhatsApp network which was run by eminent cardiologists and physicians in J&K, is dysfunctional.

“There are nearly one thousand doctors associated with the initiative but due to suspension of initiative, they are unable to run it with the result doctors are unable to get immediate advice from specialists in case of cardiac emergencies in hospitals,” he said.

Similarly, Dar said the ‘Save Brain’ initiate is also not functioning for the past four months for want of internet.

“Another WhatsApp group launched by Health and Medical Education is also not functioning,” he said.

Dr Arshid Trag, Joint secretary DAK said the doctors association is receiving hundreds of phone calls from the medicos across Jammu and Kashmir for restoration of internet to hospitals.

It said that due to the lack of internet the research works in the medical colleges across Jammu and Kashmir have been hit which worried the research scholars.

DAK requested the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu Kashmir Girish Chandra Murmu to restore the broadband service so that doctors are able to deliver the best towards patients care.

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