The demise toll from a thriller sickness in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district has risen to eight, with one other youngster succumbing to the illness in a hospital within the space on Wednesday, prompting authorities to arrange a central workforce of specialists to help in investigating the circumstances and fatalities within the affected village.
A Biosafety degree 3 (BSL-3) cellular laboratory has been dispatched to Rajouri to expedite testing and establish the sickness, officers mentioned. Twelve-year-old Ashfaq Ahmed, son of Mohammad Rafiq, handed away after being hospitalised on the Authorities Medical School (GMC) Jammu for six days, officers mentioned.
He was earlier referred to Chandigarh for remedy however couldn’t survive, officers mentioned.
Ashfaq’s youthful siblings—seven-year-old Ishtiyaq and five-year-old Nazia—died final Thursday.
With the demise of Ashfaq, the variety of fatalities in Badhaal village of Kotranka tehsil has reached eight.
All of the deceased belonged to 2 households from the identical village.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rajouri, Abhishek Sharma, visited Kotranka on Monday to evaluate the bottom scenario in Badhaal village, the place seven folks, together with six youngsters below the age of 14, have died because of the unidentified sickness.
“In response to the incident, a Biosafety Stage 3 (BSL-3) cellular laboratory has been despatched to Rajouri. Moreover, a central workforce of specialists has been constituted to help the Union Territory administration in investigating the circumstances and fatalities,” an official spokesperson mentioned.
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