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SRINAGAR: The Health and Medical Education Department has declared cancer a notifiable disease across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in a move aimed at strengthening disease surveillance, treatment planning and public health policy.
The order, issued as S.O. 146 dated May 21, 2026, has been promulgated by the Lieutenant Governor under Section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897.
According to the notification, all government, private, autonomous, cooperative and institutional hospitals, including medical college hospitals, AIIMS, ESI, railway, industrial and military hospitals, will be required to mandatorily report all diagnosed and treated cancer cases in the prescribed format.
The directive also applies to private clinics, nursing homes, hospices, AYUSH institutions, pathology and diagnostic laboratories, radiology and imaging centres, insurance companies, NGOs, registrars of births and deaths, and all other institutions maintaining cancer-related health data.
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