No new case for past 10 days, 11 patients recovered fully: Officials

All the 11 patients hospitalized in Government Medical College (GMC) at Rajouri with symptoms of "mysterious" illness have recovered fully and will be discharged in the next couple of days, said officials adding that no new case has been recorded from past 10 days.

- Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

JAMMU:

The "mysterious" illness, claimed 16 lives, including 13 children, since December 7 last year in Badhaal village of Rajouri district. A woman had died of pregnancy related complications taking the toll to 17 so far.

Dr AS Bhatia, principal of the GMC, Rajouri said, "Situation is fully under control at Badhaal village as there has been no new case for the past 10 days. Further, 11 patients at GMC Rajouri have also recovered fully and we are planning to discharge them in the next couple of days."

"Though there is no conclusive report with us yet and we still don't know exact nature of poison that caused deaths, but we have been able to cure those afflicted with atropine and put a check on further deaths. The experiment was based on statistical data of patients with us," said Dr Bhatia.