Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 23: Doctors today alleged that the health officials are responsible for the six swine flu (H1N1) deaths in the valley which could have been prevented by preemptive measures and they should be booked for criminal negligence.
“Health officials should be booked for criminal negligence as they abdicated their moral and legal duty of protecting human lives,” said Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) spokesman Dr Riyaz Daga in a statement.
He said that center for disease control and prevention’s influenza division had warned states that this seasons flu could be “most severe than most” but health officials in valley slept over it and this act of omission is responsible for H1N1 deaths.
“Health officials concealed H1N1 positive cases and did not disseminate information to public which resulted in spread of disease and deaths. Doctors were not informed about H1N1 cases with the result they were not considering this in the diagnosis and many patients might have died undiagnosed,” the spokesman said.
He said that these health officials because of their inaction would have been sacked at other places but in this part of the world perpetrators of crime are shielded.
“DAK will file a public interest litigation in the High Court tomorrow seeking criminal prosecution of health officials whose renunciation towards their legal duty to combat H1N1 outbreak has led to loss of human lives,” he said.
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