by Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, OCT 12
To reduce
the prevalence of HIV among drug injecting users of Haryana, three new oral
substitution therapy centres would be opened at Panipat, Faridabad and
Bahadurgarh. Also, seven new Targeted Intervention Projects including two for
truckers and five for migrant labourers would be made functional during the
current financial year.
While
stating this today, Haryana Health Minister, Rao Narender Singh said that the
aim was to stop infection of HIV amongst highly vulnerable sections of the
society. Such sections included sex workers, drug addicts, homosexuals, truck
drivers and labourers belonging to other States.
Earlier
Principal Secretary, Health and Medical Education, Mrs. Navraj Sandhu held
fifth State Grievances Redressal Committee meeting of Haryana State AIDS
Control Society. She reviewed the activities of Haryana State AIDS Control
Society in detail. She stressed the need for making more efforts to provide
services to people suffering from HIV and AIDS. She said that there was a
downward trend in the number of HIV and AIDS patients globally. She highly
appreciated the efforts made by Haryana State AIDS Control Society in achieving
the targets.
She
said that to make the treatment accessible to the HIV and AIDS patients at
their doorstep, six new Link Anti Retroviral Treatment Centres would be
established at district Fatehabad, Panipat, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Gurgaon
and Faridabad in this financial year raising the number of such centres to 17.
She stressed the need to open two new Anti Retroviral Treatment Centres in
Haryana as there was only one such Centre located at Post-Graduate Institute of
Medical Sciences, Rohtak. These centres would be opened in the year 2013-14.
Mrs.
Sandhu also heard the grievances of the representatives of the District Level
Network of People living with HIV and AIDS. She directed the officials of the
society that efforts should be made to trace all HIV positive persons in the
State and get them on treatment under a campaign. She stressed that though the
programme has improved considerably , quality and finer issues should be
addressed immediately.
Director
General Health Services-cum-Project Director, Dr. Narinder Arora also made
detailed deliberations in the meeting. He assured the representatives of the
district level network of HIV positive patients that no discrimination will be
tolerated against HIV positive people and requested their representatives to
bring to his notice if any such case arises and strict action would be taken
against the defaulter officials.
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