AIDS Awareness and Testing Camp for ARMY personnel organised at Danapur, Patna

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Doc cautions against unsafe sex

 

PATNA: A large number of senior Army officials, their spouses and doctors of the

Danapur Military Hospital attended a seminar organized to mark the end of a

two-day Aids awareness camp at the hospital on Thursday.

Delivering his key-note address, Dr Diwakar Tejaswi said Aids has become a

menace in most of the countries. Of the 40 million Aids/HIV cases across the

globe, about 2.5 million are in India alone. In Bihar, the number of Aids/HIV

cases is around 28,000, he said.

According to Dr Tejaswi, about 6000 HIV+ cases were found in Indian armed forces

recently. " The need of the hour is to adopt all preventive measures to check the

spread of the deadly disease in the country, " he said advising people, including

women, to insist on safe sex and go for regular medical examination.

The military hospital doctors said about 100 jawans underwent test for HIV at

the awareness camp. The Army doctors would hold seminars on a regular basis to

educate new recruits about Aids menace.

Danapur sub area commander Brig S K Yadav, BRC commandant Brig P S Rathi and ZRO

deputy director Brig R J Sharma were among those who attended the seminar.

SK Srivastava

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