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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 22: At a time when urban people have an easy access to the best available healthcare facilities, the 20 odd inhabitants of Sukhnie, who sustained severe burns Wednesday, are in a sore need of medical help to treat their wounds.
Reeling under sub-zero temperatures, Sukhnie -- the last village in the mountain-locked Warwan, Kishtwar, sans the basic medical facilities. Courtesy: The "high-profile" Omar Abdullah government.
What to speak of a doctor, not even a nursing orderly or a medical assistant is available at Sukhnie for the treatment of about 20 people, who received severe burn injuries in a devastating fire that gutted at least a dozen houses in the village Wednesday night.
Thirty six hours after the incident, the Kishtwar district administration woke up from its "slumber" and despatched two medical assistants to the village along with an army column this morning. As the place is too far from Kishtwar town, it would take them more than a day to reach there.
In the absence of the requisite medicare facilities, the victims are virtually left to die. The severe cold conditions have added to their woes. This could be the best example of the Omar Abdullah government's apathy towards its people, notwithstanding its tall claims about making available the basic medical facilities to those living in remote corners of the state.
As Sukhnie has its proximity to Anantnag district of Kashmir, a team of specialist doctors could have been sent from there, had the government been serious to the pain of the fire victims.
The government is surely equipped with all the infrastructure needed to reach Sukhnie, but it preferred not to do so, may be because it thinks that the victims are politically "unimportant" species. On January 9, four persons were buried alive under an avalanche at Yaar Pullar, another remote village in Kishtwar, but till date no serious effort had been made to retrive their bodies.
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