PTI leader visits Ratodero, show concern over rising AIDS cases

RATODERO: PTI leader MPA Haleem Adil Shaikh visited Taluka Hospital Ratodero on Sunday to meet the HIV affected people when there was no blood screening camp.

Some of his party's activists brought some women and had photo session in the closed camp due to Sunday, the holiday. Later, he visited village Allah Dino Seelaro where seven members of a family were suffering from HIV virus. He also held a meeting with heirs of two expired children.

While talking to media, he said he deliberately visited Ratodero on holiday to see what emergency measures had been taken for screening of HIV cases at the screening camp.

He said 3,000 kits had been supplied to Sindh government for HIV tests and all drugs were also being provided by the federal government, but even then treatment and medicines are not provided to the HIV positive people and screening is also denied.

He said PPP had given dreaded viral disease to the people of their constituency instead of providing them Roti, Kapra aur Makan. He said 96 billion rupees were annually given to the Health Department, but it was very pity that Sindh government handed over all hospitals to NGOs which proved that they were most incompetent and everyone knew where this huge amount was going.

He said he had disclosed on the floor of the house some time ago that HIV is spreading fast in Sindh, but Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani ignored it, adding now he was in jail & facing cases because of the curses of affected people.

He said had Sindh government been serious at that time, the storm of HIV could have been halted long ago. He said if this situation prevailed in the constituency of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Faryal Talpur, then what would be the condition in rest of Sindh.

The village women said on the occasion that only one syrup for fever was given to a child and all other medicines were denied despite the fact that two children had expired in this village and so many others were infected with the virus. So far 395 HIV positive cases had been detected here out of which 314 were children.