National Conference has expressed deep concern over unfortunate and tragic deaths of at least ten children in several villages of Ramnagar block in Udhampur district recently and called for expeditious diagnostic investigation of the disease and also taking corrective measures to effectively check its outbreak to other areas.
“The Health and Medical Education Department should seek the diagnostic investigation conducted by experts in the medical profession in a time bound manner, provide specialised treatment to suffering children, if any, and to generate awareness among the locals as also potentially threatened areas to check outbreak of the malady”, Provincial President Mr Devender Singh Rana said in a joint statement issued from Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here this afternoon.
The statement expressed solidarity with the bereaved families which lost their dear ones due to outbreak of so far mysterious disease saying no words would compensate their loss. They prayed for peace to the departed innocent souls and also strength to the bereaved members of the families to bear their irreparable loss.
Mr Rana demanded thorough survey of the areas inflicted by the disease and issuance of do’s and don’ts advisories to avoid further such tradegies. He also sought establishment of medical camps and deployment of mobile medical teams in the affected areas.
The signatories to the joint statement included Devender Singh Rana, Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Surjeet Singh Salathia, Rattan Lal Gupta, Syed Mushtaq Ahmed Shah Bukhari, Sardar Harbans Singh, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Rachpal Singh, Th. Kashmira Singh, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardy, Abdul Gani Malik, Javeed Rana, Babu Rampal, Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo, Jagjeevan Lal, Qazi Jalal Ud Din, Sheikh Abdul Rehman, Abdul Wahid Shan, Dr. Chaman Lal, Dhian Chand, Mohd Aslam Khan, Mirza Abdul Rashid, Ajaz Jan, Haji Mohd Hussain, Bimla Luthra, Begum Zubaida Salaria, Sagar Chand, Prem Sagar Aziz, Brij Mohan Sharma, Bushan Lal Bhat, Rahim Daad, Master Noor Hussain, Deepender Kour, Mohinder Singh, Vijay Lochan, Abdul Gani Teli, Ikhlaq Khan, Syed Asgar Ali, Jugal Mahajan, Ch. Haroon, Anil Dhar, Bashir Ahmed Wani, Gurdeep Singh Sasan, Vipan Pal Sharma, Ch. Liaquat Ali, Dr. Kamal Arora, Ch. Mohammad Shafi, Vijay Laxami Dutta, Satwant Kour Dogra, Swaran Latta, Dr. Gagan Bhagat, Chander Mohan Sharma, G.H Malik, Issar Khan, Dharamveer Singh Jamwal, Pardeep Bali, Dilshad Malik, Reta Gupta, Tanveer Ahmed Kichloo, Sajjad Shaheen, Tarshem Khullar, Ch. Nazir Hussain, Som Nath Khajuria, Ch. Wali Daad, Ch. Arshad, Rajesh Bakashi, Subash Chander Sharma, S.S Bunty, S. Sucha Singh, Ashok Singh Manhas,Nar Singh, Iqbal Kour, Mohd Iqbal Bhat, Ashok Dogra, Master Shamsher Singh, Bharti Sharma, Lal Chand Mushafir, Sheikh Mohd Shafi, Rashida Begum, Daljeet Sharma, Iftkhair Choudhary, Brig K.K Lakhanpal, Retd. Col Rashid, Qasim Din Bania, Bharat Bushan, Ch. Mumtaz Bajar, Khalid Hussain Mughal, Raj Kapoor, Hasham Din Quershi, Bashir Mohd Malik, Ghulam Abbas Munshi, Rahul Mahajan, Ch. Reham Ali, Vijay Khajuria, Imtiaz Zargar, Deyal Singh, Ch. Rehmat Ali, Mohinder Gupta, Ajeet Kumar Sharma, K.K Bakshi, S. Narinder Singh, Ch. Mohd Saleem, S.Sandeep Singh, Ravi Dogra, Romy Khajuria, Sunil Verma, RamParshotam, Dr. Shamshad Shan, Bushan Uppal, Shafayat Ahmed, Bagh Hussain Rathore, Qazi Mohd Syed Beigh, Peer Inayat Bukhari, Ch. Mohd Shaffi, Shafqat Mir, Mohd Arif Mir, Thakur Chail Singh, Shabir Ahmed Kamal, Shabir Ahmed Choudhary, Shama Akhter, Subash Chander Bhagat, Som Raj Taroch, Rakesh Singh Raka, S. Parvinder Singh, S. Balwinder Singh, Rohit Kerni, Rohit Bali, S. Tejinder Singh, Reyaz Malik, Kr. Yashwardan Singh, Mohd Farooq Mughal, Reyaz Ahmed Hakala, Suresh Kotwal, Balwan Singh, S. Prithpal, Dr. Tara Chand, Waris Gill, Sain Dass, Shabir Ahmed, Dr. Gaffor. , Hasina Begum, Ranjeet Kour Khalsa, Rajeev Mahajan, Mahesh Bakashi, Wahid Kashana, Mudassir Zargar.