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| No money for terminally ill youth: CM office | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 4
The family of a terminally-ill youth here is crestfallen after purportedly receiving a letter from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's office that said the government cannot pay the medical expenses despite requests from the Union home ministry.
"It is to intimate that the government of Jammu and Kashmir is not bound to obey the orders of the home ministry under Article 370, which gives special status to the state," Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's special secretary Zafar Ahmed reportedly wrote to Usha Koul, who had sought aid from the state government for her son Vipul's treatment.
"Hence your son's medical case cannot be settled at any cost on the instruction of home ministry," Ahmed wrote. Eighteen-year-old Vipul suffers from cryptorchidism, a terminal disease, and needs Rs 20 lakh for treatment.
The National Conference government of Farooq Abdullah had sanctioned Rs 14 lakh in 2001. "This is true face of the Congress-led government in Jammu and Kashmir, which dared its own government at the Centre," Vipul's father, Ashok Kaul, alleged.
"This is not a healing but a killing touch policy of the chief minister and his government. They are playing with the life of my son," Ashok, a fourth grade employee in the state government, told reporters.
However, when contacted, Ahmed denied writing such letter and said a probe will soon find out the truth. Health Minister Mangat Ram Sharma promised strict action against the guilty.
"How can anybody snub the home ministry's request like this? Either Ahmed is not mentally sound or the letter is fake. We have already started a probe," Sharma told reporters, and promised medical aid and relief to Vipul. |
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