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NHRC issues notice to Telangana CS
National Human Rights Commission issued a notice to the Telangana State government here on Wednesday taking suo motu cognizance of a media report that a 14 year old diagnosed with full-blown Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was made to shuttle between four State-run hospitals for treatment within a period of 24 hours, accompanied by with his aged grandmother.Â
A 14-year-old boy was reportedly made to run from pillar to post in Hyderabad to get Antiretroviral treatment
​New Delhi: National Human Rights Commission issued a notice to the Telangana State government here on Wednesday taking suo motu cognizance of a media report that a 14 year old diagnosed with full-blown Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was made to shuttle between four State-run hospitals for treatment within a period of 24 hours, accompanied by with his aged grandmother.
The NHRC issued a notice to the Chief Secretary S P Singh calling for a report in the matter within six weeks.
The Commission observed that the story indicated the lack of infrastructure and coordination among different government-run healthcare centres.
The boy who could be under trauma being an AIDS patient and his aged grandmother had suffered due to the callous and insensitive attitude of the hospitals.
Instead of initiating treatment of the patient, they made them run from one hospital to the other in the name of jurisdiction and non-availability of the different facilities.
According to media report the boy, who was undergoing treatment at NIMS hospital for two weeks, was referred to Niloufer Hospital for Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) as the same facility was not available at the NIMS.
He was denied admission at Nioufer Hospital on the ground that they did not take children aged over 12 years. He was directed to the Osmania General Hospital (OGH) where no help was forthcoming.
Reportedly, some volunteers arranged the overnight stay of the boy and his grandmother in the hospitals corridors.
The next morning, the doctors in the OPD refused to see the boy and referred him to an ART Centre at Chest Hospital at Erragadda, where the Doctors again referred him to OGH to undergo a liver function test besides, getting an expert opinion from the Gastroenterologist, before which the treatment could not be initiated.
The Superintendent of the NIMS hospital had reportedly confirmed that they did not take children aged beyond 12 years. Dr Vinod Kumar, a physician at ART Centre, had stated that treatment was not refused.
He had explained that since it was a Chest Hospital, the drug regimen could not be started without getting an expert opinion from a Gastroenterologist which was available only at OGH.
