Mangaluru, Oct 5: An 18-year-old girl who had been suffering from multiple ailments for nearly one decade due to endosulfan poisoning, breathed her last yesterday.
The deceased has been identified as Divya G, a resident of Padubettu near Nelyadi, in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district.
Divya’s father Vaman Naik is a daily wage labourer, and mother Pushpavathi is a beedi roller.
In spite of her illness Divya had continued to pursue education and had appeared for PU I examinations. She was given physiotherapy, treatment and education support at the Endosulfan Day Care Centre in Kokkada.
However, recently Divya’s ailments had worsened. According to her uncle Sudhakara, the girl breathed her last around 1.20am. “We would carry her to the day care centre, where she was given treatment, physiotherapy and support for her education. She was academically brilliant too,” he said.
The cause of death is said to be renal failure. There are thousands of endosulfan victims in coastal districts of Karnataka and most of them are in Belthangady taluk.
Addressing Kannadiga delegates from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and other countries through a video conference, Dr Narayan also assured that necessary steps will be taken by the Karnataka government to provide free quarantine facility for those who cannot afford private quarantine in hotels or guest houses. The video conference was organised by coastaldigest.com.
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Kasargode and border areas were more affected.
India never going to ban endosulphan because company will pay crores of rupees to govt officials and elected leaders
Many developing and developed countries already banned endosulphan and supported the ban in UN. But India (feku's direction) opposed the ban.
Still Modi supporting endosulphan
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