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Daily wage worker dies of AIDS in Balangir
Pioneer News Service | Balangir
Even as the Government and civil society organisations are making tall claims about sensitising people about causes and prevention of HIV and AIDS, yet reports of HIVpositives losing their lives, after prolonged sufferings, because of late detection and ignorance, are coming in not from rural, but from urban areas, much to surprise of many.
According to reports, Kambod( name changed) was a daily wage labourer in Titiligarh town died of AIDS recently after suffering from continuous coughing. As he was continuously suffering from cough, his cough was examined and was found to be suffering from TB. As his health condition worsened, one of his neighbours advised on checking his HIV status and a test revealed he was HIV positive.
A neighbourhood woman, while interacting with the local link worker Jamua Pradhani in the hospital narrated the suffering of Kamboda and his deteriorating health condition.
Getting information Jamuna visited his house and listened his history. She took the initiatives and linked him with a local NGO for CD4 count to be done at Burla.
However, as none of his relatives came forward for further tests, Jamuna took him to VSS Medical Hospital in Burla and enrolled for anti--retroviral therapy(ART) treatment. After taking ART treatment for more than one and half months Kambod died in the third week of March.
The link worker scheme, launched in the third phase of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) programme is supposed to work in the rural areas as large number of HIV positives are believed to be undetected in the rural areas. The link workers are also working in the urban area which is not their assigned area. They are supposed to work in their assigned rural areas. After the death of Kambod her family members are going through very difficult period. As the main bread earner of the family has expired, it has brought unending trouble for his wife and two children.
“We are trying to arrange assistance for Kambod family under National Family Benefit scheme as the main bread earner of the family has expired,” said supervisor of link worker scheme Bhagabat Nahak. Had Kambodar been aware about the cause of TB and HIV, AIDS and had his case been detected early his life could have been saved, Nahak added.
Daily wage worker dies of AIDS in Balangir
Pioneer News Service | Balangir
Even as the Government and civil society organisations are making tall claims about sensitising people about causes and prevention of HIV and AIDS, yet reports of HIVpositives losing their lives, after prolonged sufferings, because of late detection and ignorance, are coming in not from rural, but from urban areas, much to surprise of many.
According to reports, Kambod( name changed) was a daily wage labourer in Titiligarh town died of AIDS recently after suffering from continuous coughing. As he was continuously suffering from cough, his cough was examined and was found to be suffering from TB. As his health condition worsened, one of his neighbours advised on checking his HIV status and a test revealed he was HIV positive.
A neighbourhood woman, while interacting with the local link worker Jamua Pradhani in the hospital narrated the suffering of Kamboda and his deteriorating health condition.
Getting information Jamuna visited his house and listened his history. She took the initiatives and linked him with a local NGO for CD4 count to be done at Burla.
However, as none of his relatives came forward for further tests, Jamuna took him to VSS Medical Hospital in Burla and enrolled for anti--retroviral therapy(ART) treatment. After taking ART treatment for more than one and half months Kambod died in the third week of March.
The link worker scheme, launched in the third phase of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) programme is supposed to work in the rural areas as large number of HIV positives are believed to be undetected in the rural areas. The link workers are also working in the urban area which is not their assigned area. They are supposed to work in their assigned rural areas. After the death of Kambod her family members are going through very difficult period. As the main bread earner of the family has expired, it has brought unending trouble for his wife and two children.
“We are trying to arrange assistance for Kambod family under National Family Benefit scheme as the main bread earner of the family has expired,” said supervisor of link worker scheme Bhagabat Nahak. Had Kambodar been aware about the cause of TB and HIV, AIDS and had his case been detected early his life could have been saved, Nahak added.
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