Nearly 7 lakh patients have visited Out Patient Departments (OPDs) in Kashmir hospitals during August, with the government claiming that healthcare institutions successfully performed nearly 49,000 major and minor surgeries.
According to an official spokesperson, the data compiled by the Health and Medical Education Department for the month of August reveals that 46,449 patients have visited the In Patient Departments (IPDs) in various government-run healthcare institutions, while the doctors successfully performed 4,334 major and 44,236 minor surgeries respectively in peripheral and tertiary care hospitals.
The official data reveals that 2,508 normal deliveries were conducted during August, while 3,266 Caesarian sections were also performed across Kashmir hospitals.
The data further reveals that 4,87,306 lab investigations were done in various hospitals ,including Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, SKIMS, Bemina, Government Medical College, Srinagar, Health Services, Kashmir, Dental College, Srinagar, with 28,345 USGs, 5,140 CT scans, 660 MRIs and 45,261 X-rays/dental X-rays. Also 42,022 dental procedures were done for the month in Srinagar.
“In order to facilitate smooth functioning of the healthcare institutions in the Kashmir region, the Health and Medical Education Department provided facilities to the renal patients saying that 1,078 dialysis procedures were done in August,” the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, officials of the department claimed that there was no shortage of essential drugs in hospitals in the Kashmir region.
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