Srinagar, January 21: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) legislator Waheed Parra on Wednesday said cancer had claimed far more lives in Jammu and Kashmir than decades of conflict, calling it a major public health and governance crisis that required urgent government intervention.
In a social media post, Parra said around 67,000 people had died of cancer in the past five years, compared with a similar number of deaths attributed to conflict over the last three decades. “Cancer is killing 300 times more people than conflict in J&K,” he said.
