STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: With thousands of persons in Kashmir having retained pellets in their bodies, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday revealed that they pose a serious threat to their lives.
Raising alarm, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that pellets lodged in body pose a significant and fatal risk to human life.
Embedded pellets have the potential to cause severe lead poisoning that can prove to be fatal, he said adding that the symptoms may appear within few days after someone gets shot, but patients can turn up decades later. Lead is particularly toxic to children causing potentially permanent learning and behavioral disorders including violence, he said.
