The doctors say that the alarming rise in cancer in Kashmir is due to sedentary lifestyle and thoughtless food habits.
Thirty-five year Saira Bano is suffering from blood cancer, when the fatal ailment was diagnosed in 2010, she was already in the last stage. The family stopped some treatment procedures after sometime because of the high costs involved.
Her desperation drove her to a special medical camp started free of cost by the Breast Cancer Patients Foundation (BCPF).
“We have come here to get treatment hoping it is either free of cost or very cheap. It's been one year since she has been diagnosed with blood cancer,” Saira husband, Wazir Khan said.
Experts suggest that proliferation of cancer cases is on the rise and it needs an intervention.
Kashmir doctor Sameer Kaul, who heads the BCPF, says he will rope in top doctors of the country and abroad for free screening and treatment for poor people in Kashmir where according to experts incidence of cancer has increased from 1 in 26 to one in nine.
Kaul, who joined opposition People's Democratic Party recently, offered medical help and donating an ambulance.
“We will introduce all the programmes of foundation in Srinagar apart from free camps there will be public awareness lectures on defeating cancer, where we will talk about prevention and give necessary information about the disease,'' Kaul said.
“To put a check on this, the poor need to be exposed to the best and affordable medical facilities, Kaul added.
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