Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 17: Expressing his grave concern over detection of hundreds of cases of typhoid and diarrhoea in some villages of districts Rajouri especially tehsil Darhal during past three weeks, People’s Democratic Party leader (PDP) Choudhary Hamid asked the Government to send special teams of doctors to ground zero and also ensure adequate stocks of medicines in the area so that patients could be provided with better and timely health care facilities.
From amongst the affected maximum are children and they are in dire need of specialised treatment in Rajouri. Hamid Choudhary said that this epidemic has spread by sheer negligence of those authorities who had been supplying contaminated water to people and the matter must be got investigated so that responsibility is fixed and accused tried as per the law of land.
He said that laboratory results of water samples collected by medical team must be made public so that people could know the reason of spread of these diseases. If need arise Government must send more child specialists in the area to extend a helping hand to the existing doctors and paramedical staff so that patients get round the clock care.
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