A young National Conference leader has died due to covid-19 in a hospital in Jammu, officials said on Thursday.
A doctor at GMC Jammu told news agency GNS that the 38-year-old was serious and died today afternoon.
Sadly we lost Rohit a few minutes ago. He had been put on a ventilator but the medical teams, in spite of their best efforts, couldn’t stabilise him. He leaves behind a wife & two young kids. May his soul rest in peace. #Covid_19 kills. Taking it lightly is suicidal. https://t.co/yXHJiEgSWv
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) July 9, 2020
“Sadly we lost Rohit (Kirni) a few minutes ago. He had been put on a ventilator but the medical teams, in spite of their best efforts, couldn’t stabilise him. He leaves behind a wife & two young kids,” party vice president and former chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted.