A man in Punjab is on a mission to get the drug menace recognised and for it to be written as the cause of death on death certificates, reported the Times of India.
Mukhtiar Singh is staging a protest in Tarn Taran district in Punjab by writing slogans on the shroud that once covered his son.
He goes to the sub-divisional magistrates office every time there is a drug-related death. Currently, the certificate that is used to notify municipal councils about the death of a person lists beedi, hookah, alcohol and even pregnancy as possible causes of death, but not drugs.
Part of the reason that drug-related deaths are not recognised or are brushed under the carpet is because there is no record of them in the first place.
Mukhtiar started a campaign for the recognition of drug-related deaths after losing his 28-year-old son to addiction.
The 47-year-old is using his sons shroud with slogans written on them to make people aware of the implications of long-term drug use.
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