After the government’s decision to strip Article 370 andbifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into two UTs, some media outlets and individual shave made it their primary job to spread rumours and misinformation to incite violence and protests.

Yesterday, leftist propaganda website The Wire had published a report suggesting that there is a shortage of life-saving medicines in Kashmir. In the article titled “Kashmir Running Short of Life Saving Drugs as Clampdown Continues,” it suggested that local drug shops have run short ofsupplies in Srinagar district.However, Shahid Choudhary, District Magistrate of Srinagar, had quoted The Wire’s story and tweeted, “All concerns and worries are deeply appreciated but we were not low on medical stocks even for a single day. No interruption in supplies. Still open to help individual cases, if any.”

Today the district administration of Srinagar has again dismissed social media posts claiming that due to ‘high demand and low supply’,black-marketing of medicines is going up and costs are too high for many patientsto afford.

A person named Kiran Verma had claimed in a Facebook post that the cost of medicines in Jammu and Kashmir has been skyrocketing and heand his friends will be taking medicines to Srinagar from Delhi.

Verma had further asked people to come forward and donate money to him so that he can ‘buy medicines for Kashmiri people’.SrinagarAdministration has clarified that though the spirit of helping the poor andneedy is appreciated, there is neither shortage nor overpricing of medicines inKashmir. It further stated that in the last 20 days, medicines worth 23.83crores have reached end retailers, which is slightly higher than the normalmonthly average.

The government along with local administration have ensuredthat while the restrictions are in place, there is no shortage of food,medicines, commodities or services in Jammu and Kashmir.