Maharashtra govt agrees to provide help to HIV patient

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The India Express 19 April 2002

Maharashtra govt agrees to provide help to HIV patient

MUMBAI, APRIL 18: THE Maharashtra government today attempted to make amends to

solve the dilemma of providing free medicines to a 13-year-old HIV patient, who

contracted the disease through a blood transfusion at a government hospital.

The state government's stance comes after it was severely criticised by the

Bombay High Court for not making attempts to solve the situation and pleading

that since there was no programme to help the HIV positive patients, the state

could do nothing in the case.

Advocate-General Goolam Vahanvati, who was called before the court, told the

division bench that he would directly speak to the minister concerned and in a

show of sympathetic discretion, the girl may be helped.

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