Is H1N1 virus creating scare among people to send truck loads of anti virus medicines to Kasmir
Local media has been giving hype to swine flu cases in Kashmir valley and this in turn has created panic among the general people who are going to medical shops to purchase anti swine flu drugs of their own.
Many senior doctors of SKIMS told VOV that all the cases which have been declared as H1N1 virus are yet to be declared as such because in many cases all the tests to prove them as such were not conducted. Doctors at SKIMS further said that the Budgham woman who died in the hospital was diagnosed with influenza. “She died after being treated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder”the doctor who was treating her told this newspaper. Lot of rumours are making rounds in Kashmir about the growing cases of H1N1 virus cases. These rumors are getting hype in the media about such cases has resulted in panic among the general masses.
Many doctors and experts say that there is a strong lobby of many big players who supply H1N1 virus drugs and they want to send truck loads of it to Kashmir.
Post 2014 floods these big companies created a scare among the people about the infections. At that time there was a media hype to that scare resulting in panic purchases by people and going for drugs and injections without being prescribed by the doctors. The companies from outside J&K state supplied truck loads of face masks post 2014 floods and even the hospitals did purchases worth crores
Doctors have appealed people not to go for purchases for this infection without being prescribed by the doctors. The doctors said that due to dry weather spell influenza cases were witnessing a search in entire Kashmir and said that people need not to go panic.
As the winter will set in with temperatures going down it is usual in Kashmir to have the influenza. Doctors have asked people to take precautions as they have been taking in previous winter to not get infected with influenza.
J&K government has yet to react and publish appeals to the people about the rumors being floated by drug mafia to send truck loads of medicines to the Kashmir “Mandi”. In absence of any government intervention, to educate and inform people not to get panic, drug mafia is having its day in Kashmir.
