New Delhi: Free HIV drugs from 29 city hospitals

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Free HIV drugs for city

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2004 01:34:33 AM ]

NEW DELHI : The Delhi government will provide anti-retroviral drugs

to HIV/AIDS patients free of cost. The treatment will be available at

29 hospitals.

Other new measures to control HIV/AIDS will include the establishment

of 17 voluntary counselling and testing centres, as well as seven

regional and 10 zonal blood testing centres.

The government will also offer immunisations at 10 hospitals for

diseases that are transmitted from mother to child.

Delhi health and social welfare minister Yoganand Shastri announced

the new health measures at a press conference on Wednesday.

The government is also planning to add 600 more beds to government

hospitals by March 31, including a 140-bed trauma centre at the DDU

Hospital and a 57-bed special ward/nursing home block at the Lok

Nayak Hospital .

There are plans to develop three new hospitals at Najafgarh, Nangloi

and Kanjhawla.

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