{"id":51730,"date":"2022-07-01T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/doctors-association-kashmir-demands-medical-university-for-kashmir-on-doctors-day\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:43:08","slug":"doctors-association-kashmir-demands-medical-university-for-kashmir-on-doctors-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51730","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Association Kashmir demands medical university for Kashmir on doctors\u2019 day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar, July 01:<\/em><\/strong> On doctors\u2019 day, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday demanded setting up of a medical university in Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMedical university in Kashmir is the need of the hour\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Hassan said Jammu and Kashmir (JK) has dozens of medical institutions, including medical, dental and paramedical colleges, which are currently affiliated to Kashmir and Jammu universities. The two universities are already overburdened with the affairs of their own academic institutions and find it hard to cater to the needs of thousands of medical and paramedical students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn absence of medical university, medical students suffer immensely as examination, results and awarding of degrees often get delayed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DAK President said medical university would give new direction to medical curriculum that would change the health care scenario in JK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe varsity would provide competent caring physicians through quality undergraduate and postgraduate training that would shape the future of the health care in the region,\u201d he said adding \u201cthe quality of nurses and paramedics would also improve through outstanding education that would produce a paradigm change in patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe university would provide an environment that is conducive for research which would bring us on the scientific map of the world,\u201d said Dr Nisar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt would serve as an international magnet and will attract high quality professionals across the globe to practice, teach and research in an academic medical environment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Secretary DAK Dr Arshad Ali said the medical university would integrate health care system of the valley and bring the health institutions under one umbrella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat will provide uniform quality health care to all and improve patient satisfaction and outcome,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, July 01: On doctors\u2019 day, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday demanded setting up of a medical university in Kashmir. \u201cMedical university in Kashmir is the need of the hour\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan. Dr Hassan said Jammu and Kashmir (JK) has dozens of medical institutions, including medical, dental and paramedical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}