Jammu-Kashmir Mysterious Disease: Rajouri Doctors Reportedly Find Cure As Patients' Health Improves After 16 Deaths

The doctors at the Government Medical Centre (GMC), Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), may have found a cure for a mysterious illness that claimed 16 lives in the past weeks, days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah ordered a probe into the matter.

In a significant advancement, physicians at GMC Rajouri have successfully used atropine to treat 11 individuals from Badhal village who were suffering from an unknown disease. This treatment method has turned out to be revolutionary, leading to considerable improvement in the patients' conditions.

The affected village has not reported any new cases in the last three days, indicating that the situation might finally be stabilising. Moreover, the condition of three patients admitted to two Jammu hospitals and another patient admitted to PGI Chandigarh is also stable, as per GMC Rajouri Principal.

Principal Dr Amarjeet Singh Bhatia told The New Indian Express that the patients are receiving a steady supply of atropine, a medication used to elevate heart rate and serve as an antidote for organophosphorus poison.

“After use of atropine, the sudden dip in consciousness level of patients has stopped and they are recovering,” he was quoted as saying by TNIE.

Dr Bhatia explained how they came to atropine, “We compared the treatments given to those patients, who died and who recovered. After comparative study, we found that doctors had given atropine to two patients in December and both had survived and recovered.”

Based on the comparative study, the GMC Rajouri Principal decided to give atropine to all the patients suffering from the mysterious illness.

Dr Bhatia mentioned that Aijaz Ahmad, a patient who had been transferred to PGI Chandigarh a few days ago and is now in stable condition, was also administered atropine at the GMC Rajouri.