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LARKANA: The team of health experts who went to Ratodero at the request of the federal government to investigate the spread of HIV / AIDS in the city of Larkana and prepare its recommendations to contain the situation, communicated its Preliminary conclusions to Minister Azra Pechuho, Minister of Health of Sindh, Saturday.
Drs Oliver Morgan, Karl Schenkel, Water Zingg, Joumana Hermez and Fahimda Khan discussed the findings of their respective teams with the minister at a meeting held in Darbar Hall, sources said.
Larkana Commissioner Saleem Raza, Deputy Commissioner Javed Ahmed Jagirani, and other relevant officials, including the District Health Officer and the Medical Superintendent of Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH), were also present.
The expert also informed the Minister of the projects of their teams. S addressing local reporters, Dr. Pechuho said the experts [from World Health Organisation] in their preliminary report "identified certain weaknesses". They briefed the meeting on their methods of investigation and work, and discussed a future strategy for their field work, she said, adding that the teams would share more of their resources. results with the health department once the survey ended.
Answering a question about the lack of drugs for HIV treatment, she said, "There is no doubt that we need to overcome it. we have already placed orders for the drugs and we will surely receive them in a few weeks. "
She stated that the Global Fund, through the federal government, would allocate funds and that [the health department] would receive the drugs and kits.
She said that Unicef was helping a lot and that with her cooperation, a women's treatment center would be established in Larkana.
She added that the health department had conducted blood tests with more than 26,000 people at Ratodero Taluka Hospital and other health facilities in the district.
She called the number "a record".
About Non-Recipient Patients [children]she said that they should be treated for other infectious diseases they were suffering from. Then they would definitely be put on HIV / AIDS treatment, she added.
She urged the media to show restraint in speaking to the WHO teams involved in this task.
"They feel embarrbaded in the execution of their work when the media staff tries to ask them questions," she said. Instead, she advised the media to contact the health department manager for information.
The WHO, in its June 3 report on the HIV / AIDS situation in Ratodero, reported that 26,041 people had already been screened at Ratodero Taluka hospital, sources in the Department of Health said Saturday. health.
Giving a break, the report says that 751 were diagnosed HIV positive and that the number of children among them was 604.
Funding of US $ 1.5 million was needed to meet the challenge, sources said.
WHO teams visited Saturday the hospital's blood screening center.
Posted in Dawn, EOS, June 9, 2019
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