BY MOHD MAJID MALIK ,DODA,MAR25—– At least four children in this Dadkahi village , about 32 kms from Thatri , have been disabled in past one month due to outbreak of a mysterious disease. Residents of snowbound Dadkahi village nestled in mountain range are finding it hard to tackle the crisis as more and more children are getting disabled with each passing day. “Doctors are unable to diagnose the disease properly and treat the patients. People are making rounds of DH Bhalessa and Thatri and other medical institutions but to no avail,” parents of two patients told .
Locals are up in arms against the officials of PHE department. “Our area has vast water resources like stream but the PHE department dug eight bore wells around 250 feet deep . Without testing the water of bore wells they handed these to the residents of village with a population of 1500 souls .There could be several more cases of same disease as the entire village has been using the water of these bore wells since 1990 .”
The Sarpanch of village appealed Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to intervene and send a special team of doctors to the affected village and treat the children so that their lives are saved so that they can hear and speak .
When contacted CMO Doda said, “We has not received any report from the concerned , area . I have shot a letter to them. We are planning to send a team of doctors to the area to asses the ground situation and added that in this village more then 200 people are deaf and dumb and we are assessing the situation .