Comment of the Health Secretary of West Bengal

May 29, 2007

Sub: Comment of the Health Secretary of West Bengal on treating dead boady of

HIV positive person

Dear forum,

Greeting from BNP+!

Last week we posted a report on Nitai Adhikari, Who faced stigma, discrimination

in medical college when he came to MCH for his treatment.

The health service providers didn’t provide any kind of care and support at

first, he was denied treatment. After a long battle he was admitted in the MCH

but the picture and the mentality of the service providers was not changed yet.

He was treated as sub human in the hospital.

At last he died in the hospital and nobody touched his body to bring him out

from the hospital.

Though a numerous sensitization programme were held in the govt.hospitals

including MCH. In MCH only at least 2 sensitization programmes were held in the

surgery department in this year. What is the result of that Programmes?

You will be stunt when you heard the comment of the Health Secretary of West

Bengal, Ms.Sanchita Boxi.

Yesterday she gave a statement in a leading Bengali newspaper, The Ananda

Bazaar Patrika, that it is more dangerous when the fluids comes from the body

after death of a HIV positive person. So no one will come to help the family of

the person. She added that so the govt.hospital authority release the patients

from at that time the hospital and tell his family to take away him / her from

the hospital.

We don’t know it is true or false. We have no guide line regarding this. But one

thing you think if the statement is true then it already came to the limelight.

Because it is a serious thing to think that. But no one can tell about it. On

the other hand if it is false then you can understand what was the impact of the

sensitization? All the money and effort was gone in vein.

If you all know about this please send your valuable feed back .We are waiting

for your comments.

With Regards,

Tarit

Tarit Chakraborty

Regional Co-ordinatore(INP+)

President of BNP+(West Bengal)

e-mai: tarit34@...

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