High incidents of Cancer in village near Pokhran; Investigation Demanded
Out of the 4,000 odd residents in the village, as many as 80 to 100 are cancer patients
Rajasthan: Residents of Khartoli, a village near Rajasthan’s Pokhran are slowly succumbing to cancer with none of the authorities concerned paying attention to their health travails.
The disease spreading all across the village is an outcome of the two nuclear tests conducted in its vicinity.
IANS reports that India’s first nuclear test was conducted under then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1974 at a stretch just 10 km from Khartoli. In 1998, the country conducted its second nuclear under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at a site barely 3 km from the village.
Stating that cancer cases in Khartoli multiplied after the nuclear tests, a resident of Pokhran informed the news agency that the governments of the time never took up the issue. Out of the 4,000 odd residents in the village, as many as 80 to 100 are cancer patients, he added.
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“Deformity cases have gone up in Khartoli and they can be noticed even in new-born calves. The growth of our kids has been affected,” he stated.
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