After 51 days of unrest in Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti reaches out to pellet victim in Delhi

After 51 days of unrest in the Valley, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on yesterday reached out to a pellet gun victim in a Delhi hospital.

Mehbooba Mufti today visited Safdarjung Eye Centre at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi to enquire about the welfare of Insha, a young Kashmiri girl who is undergoing treatment for pellet injuries.

The chief minister, while interacting with the doctors at AIIMS, requested them to make all possible efforts to restore the eyesight of the girl. "Even if she requires an eye transplant to make her see the world around again, the state government would provide full support for the same," she told the doctors.

CM PROMISES ALL POSSIBLE HELP TO INSHA

She assured the parents of Insha that the government would ensure best possible treatment, within or even outside the country, for their daughter.

Mufti also enquired about the welfare of a policeman, who was grievously injured during ongoing unrest and is undergoing treatment at AIIMS.

Fifteen-year-old insha, a 9th class student, got pellet injuries in her both eyes during clashes between protesters and security forces on July 9, 2016. Insha was hit by pellet when she was in her home in Sedew Village of Shopian district in South Kashmir.

Family lost all hopes when doctors in Srinagar said that her eyes had got completely damaged by pellet injury and it is difficult if she could ever get her eye sight back.

After the girl's pictures got viral on social medi,a Jammu and Kashmir government decided to help her family to get girl treated in AIMS, Delhi. Currently she is being treated there.

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Mufti on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi to discuss Kashmir unrest. During her meet with the prime minister, Mufti said that some people are using children as shield during stone pelting incidents to fuel unrest in the Valley.

She visited one seriously injured eye patient in a Delhi hospital during her visit to the Capital city on Saturday.

More than 9000 people have been injured, including 4000 security personal, in the last 51 days of unrest and violence across Kashmir. Out of these hundreds of injured, about 500 have got injuries in their eyes and some of them are believed to be at the verge of losing their eye sight. Few critically injured persons where shifted to Delhi for special treatment by the state government.

In her Independence Day speech, Mufti had made an emotional appeal to agitating youth to not to be misled and maintained that dialogue is the only way to resolve issues.

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