DAK demands restoration of internet to hospitals, doctors.

SRINAGAR -- In occupied Kashmir, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) has demanded restoration of the internet service to hospitals on urgent basis in order to deliver optimum medical services across health institutions.

The DAK President, Dr. Suhail Naik, in a statement in Srinagar, said that the continuous internet blockade after August 05 had made the work of doctors difficult to deliver the optimal health services in the hospitals.

He said, 'Delivery of best medical services largely depends on continuous learning process through internet as medical knowledge keeps on rapidly evolving with new emerging diagnostic practices and delivery of patient care.' He stated that delivery of these services had been hampered badly due to suspension of internet.

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 occupied Kashmir, is dysfunctional. 'There are nearly one thousand doctors associated with the initiative but due to...