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Recent spike in cancer cases in J&K a ‘health crisis’: PDP leader
Families, especially the poor, are forced to sell land and assets to seek treatment outside Kashmir because local hospitals are over burden or lack capacity, said PDP leader
Labelling the recent spike in cancer cases across Jammu and Kashmir as “health crisis”, PDP legislator Waheed ur Rehman Para said in the past five years, the cancer has consumed 67,000 lives in J&K.
Pulwama MLA said that cancer is killing 300 times more people than conflict in J&K.
”Cancer: 67,000 deaths in 5 years. Conflict: 67,000 deaths in 30 years. The biggest battles are often the ones we don’t see. Families, especially the poor, are forced to sell land and assets to seek treatment outside Kashmir because local hospitals are over burden or lack capacity. This is health and governance crisis that cannot be ignored, @CM_JnK. Government needs to address this crisis,” he wrote on X.
Health experts have also warned health crisis as the cancer cases are on rise in J&K and there is still a minimal infrastructure to tackle these case, though of late many new medical colleges and private health facilities have come up in J&K, however still there are enough good institutions for cancer patients in both government and private set ups.
