Dead body of +ve taken to Rajasthan AIDS Control Society

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Dear Forum,

I am a Broadcast Journalsit who is working on HIV/AIDS issues from a

pretty long time.

My main area of operation is Rajasthan where I dont know why the

things are getting worse and worse day by day in the field of HIV AIDS.

It was shocking for me to witness a death of a HIV/AIDS patient

yesterday who was not oferred treatment only on the ground that she

was a HIV Positive.

The incidence happened on 4th of November,2006 when this women brought to

hospital for treatment of some other ailment, tested HIV positive.

Rajasthan Network of Positive people alleged that her HIV status

brought complete denial from the Doctors who showed unwillingness to

give her life saving drugs, not even oxygen.

RNP+ members brought the dead body of the decesased to the office of

Rajasthan Aids control society where it kept lying uptil the

intervention of local police.

I was shocked to see the dead body under the shade of a poster which

was saying " Let us fight against HIV AIDS " .

This was not the first case of HIV-AIDS patient being denied of

treatment.

Now is it time to sensitise the Doctors when we are alreday number one effected

by the draconian virus.

Is any body listening?

Dr. JASVINDER SEHGAL

e-mail: <jasvindersehgal@...>