Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 19: In view of COVID-19 scare and confirmed case from Srinagar, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today requested doctors to volunteer for providing online consultations to patients through WhatsApp or telephonically.
President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik said hospitals remain abuzz with hundreds of patients and their attendants and people at large should limit visiting hospital unnecessarily to prevent transmission of the coronavirus.
“This in long way is going to decrease large cohort of people visiting hospitals and a method to contain the spread of COVID-19,” he said.
DAK held an emergency meeting and discussed measures to fight the novel coronavirus.
Dr Naik requested all doctors in the valley who are interested in the novel initiative to submit their phone numbers or show willingness in DAK groups so that the same can be publicized WhatsApp numbers on social media.
The doctor’s body has also appealed the government to take extra measures as the coronavirus positive cases are going up in Jammu and Kashmir.
DAK also appealed doctors to provide consultation at community level to people in order to curtail the rush in the hospitals.
After the emergency meeting, DAK created Covid-19 helpline for general public and advised people to call on the phone numbers provided.
Dr Suhail Naik, Pediatrician: 9419032562, Dr Owais H Dar, Radiologist: 9906521015, Dr Masood Ul Hassan, general physician: 9419009325, Dr Masood Rashid, anesthesiologist: 7006786774, Dr Mir Mushtaq, orthopedician: 7006215235, Dr Rakhshanda, gynaecolgist: 7006287762, Dr Manzoor Ahmad, Consultant, SKIMS Medical College: 9419000311, Dr Mohamad Younis (AP Surgical Gastroenterology, SKIMS): 9797802521, Dr Shahnawaz Kaloo, Consultant Interventional Radiology, Max Hospital Delhi: +917835056123, Dr Arshad Baba, Consultant surgeon: 9906501331, Dr Arshad baba consultant surgeon: 9906501331, Dr Sheikh Shoib, Psychiatrist: 9797197388, Dr Yawar Yaseen, Physician: 9697364976, Dr Shahnaz Ahmad Sheikh, ENT specialist, Dr Mubashir Hassan Shah, Consultant Pediatrician: 9881342255, Dr Shabir Ahmad Lone, Consultant Medicine: 9596580210, Dr Shahnaz Ahmad Sheikh, ENT specialist: 7006564396, Dr Ghulam Jeelani Zargar, General Surgeon: 7006814027, Dr. Sajad Ahmad, Medical Block Boniyar: 9797224343, Dr Fayaz Bhat, Physician: 7006693156 and Dr Nadeem, Surgeon: 7006532988.
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