Pak firing: 14-month-old Pari suffers neck, spine injures; condition sensitive

New Delhi: A 14-month-old girl, Pari, who has sustained injuries in her neck and spine, after heavy mortar shelling from Pakistan along the Line of Control, is undergoing a treatment at the GMC. The condition of the girl is very sensitive. Doctors attending the victims of cross border firing say that while most of the injuries were not life threatening, Pari might need to stay in hospital for long as her injuries would take longer to heal. "We have been treating victims of cross border firing from all parts of Jammu region and we try our best to provide them with best possible medical facilities here. We are working round the clock for them," Neeraj Sharma, a GMC doctor attending to the injured patients said. The victims say that the injuries might heal, but the scars of firing etched in their memories would not. "Wounds will heal, but life will not remain the same for us, now we would be afraid to return to our houses," Kumar said. The relatives of the victims say that the firing has once again justified their demand for rehabilitation to safer locations. "If similar situations continue on the border, nobody would want to return to their villages. The government must fulfil its promise of providing us with plots at safer locations," Preetam Singh, a resident of Rangoor said.