Alert after unknown disease kills two sisters

Jammu | Sunday | 16th December, 2018

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JAMMU: Two minor sisters have died of an undiagnosed disease at a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district , officials said Saturday. There we were referred to Reasi District Hospital. Reasi District Development Commissioner Sagar Dattatray Doifode said he had ordered setting up of a special medical team to look into the deaths of the two minors. They breathed their last on Friday at Reasi District Hospital within two hours of being brought there by their father Prem Chand from far-flung Danour village in Arnas area, officials said. The news of the minors' deaths put the district administration on alert, prompting the authorities to constitute a special medical team to ascertain the cause of the deaths.The deceased were identified as Ashruti Devi, 8, and her sister Asho Devi, 5..