An eight year old boy died of hepatitis A at Srinagar hospital on Sunday morning after the outbreak of disease in a Turk Tachloo village of Kulgam district.
Health officials told Rising Kashmir that so far eight cases were tested positive among whom two kids have died.
“Four more cases have been tested positive for Hepatitis A and under continuous observation of medical teams,” the official said.
Earlier, a five year old girl died of hepatitis A, after battling for ten days in the paediatric hospital at Srinagar.
Rafiq Ahmad Dhobi, Chief Medical Officer, Kulgam told Rising Kashmir, that unfortunately the two kids died of hepatitis A at Turk Tachloo village of Kulgam.
“The kids who have developed symptoms, including the two who died, belong to a local school. We are looking for the reasons, and our teams are in the village to look into all the details,” he said, adding water samples, screening and testing are all going well in the village.
“I have given instructions to the team and they will be testing all the kids of this school since the rest of the kids are doing well,” he added.
More details awaited.
