Srinagar: Communist Party of India CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami expressed serious concern over the outbreak of Hepatitis disease in Turka Tachloo village in Kulgam district in which two children have died so far.
In a statement, Tarigami expressed serious concern over the outbreak of Hepatitis disease in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district suspected to be caused due to untreated drinking water and demanded immediate steps to control and prevent spread of the disease.
Two School children died due to Hepatitis disease in the village Turka Tachloo and four others infected are being treated in the hospital.
Tarigami alleged that the filtration plants at Yaripora, Behibagh and Water Supply Schemes in the area constructed at a huge cost are either non-functional or partly functional.
He asked the administration to formulate a comprehensive contingency plan to curb the disease.
“Expert teams should be deputed to these areas to go deep into the causative agents which have resulted in the outbreak of this deadly disease,” he said.
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