Chandigarh, July 18, 2019 (Yes Punjab News)
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has expressed its grave concern over the spread of dreaded diseases like cancer, black jaundice, and more recently the deadly AIDs (HIV) spreading their fangs across the state of Punjab, besides the zombie of drugs that had ruined the future of a good chunk of the youth in the state .
In a joint statement issued from party headquarters on Thursday, Deputy Leader of Opposition (Dy LoP) in Punjab Assembly, Sarvjit Kaur Manuke, Prof Baljinder Kaur and Rupinder Kaur Ruby (Both MLAs) said that the reports pouring in from various districts of the state on the fast-spreading AIDs virus was alarming, stating that not only the governments but also the civil society needed to be alert on the ill-effects of the deadly virus taking a toll on human lives.
Expressing deep shock over the rising cases of HIV in the state, Manuke said that about dozens of youth were found HIV positive at Badrukhan village under Sangrur district, followed by another startling report from Fazilka where more than 50 youths were found HIV positive and now Barnala was in the spotlight for the same reason where more than 40 cases infected with the virus were detecte which, she said, had sounded a clarion call for the dispensation and the civil society to be on their toes.
Prof Baljinder Kaur said it was indeed heart-rending that Punjab, the known as the abode of the Gurus ‘pirs’ and ‘paigambars’, was in the grip of deadly diseases like, cancer, black jaundice, AIDs virus taking a heavy toll on human lives, stating that both the erstwhile Badal government and now the ruling Captain-led Congress government in the saddle were responsible for the spread of drugs in the state and driving the youth into the menace, inviting such deadly diseases.
On the occasion, young MLA Rupinder Kaur Ruby called upon the youth and their parents across the state to make a human chain in tandem with civil society to combat the menace before it was too late.
She added that the since the subsequent governments changing hands in power had failed to take a call on the menace, the AAP would spearhead a state-wide movement, in association with the youth, especially from schools and colleges, to make the people across the state aware of the looming menace and how to take on it on their own.
Meanwhile, the women MLAs have demanded that chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh and state health minister, Balbir Singh Sidhu, should immediately form special medical teams and assign them with the task of identifying the suspected HIV cases in various district in the state and initiate preventive measures to check the rising incidents of the youth and others falling an easy prey to the deadly virus.
