NHRC's Intervention secures proper treatment for AIDs patient New Delhi, 5 December 2003
Following intervention of the National Human Rights Commission, an AIDs patient has received proper medical treatment at a Government hospital in Delhi.
The 48-year-old unemployed HIV positive patient had complained to the Commission on 18 September 2003 that he had been denied proper treatment both by Government and non-government hospitals in Delhi. He had also alleged that since he had been diagnosed with stones in his kidneys he had approached a Government hospital for dialysis but was refused. He then underwent dialysis at a private hospital in Delhi after incurring huge expenditure but no surgery was performed for removal of the Kidney stones. He then got himself admitted to another Government hospital for treatment.
The Commission pursued the case with the concerned hospitals and requested that proper medical treatment be given to the patient concerned. The patient is now being given proper medical treatment.
The Commission has directed that medical cases dealing with HIV positive patients, hospitals should offer proper treatment without the poor patients having to approach NHRC in future.
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The 48-year-old unemployed HIV positive patient had complained to the Commission on 18 September 2003 that he had been denied proper treatment both by Government and non-government hospitals in Delhi. He had also alleged that since he had been diagnosed with stones in his kidneys he had approached a Government hospital for dialysis but was refused. He then underwent dialysis at a private hospital in Delhi after incurring huge expenditure but no surgery was performed for removal of the Kidney stones. He then got himself admitted to another Government hospital for treatment.
The Commission pursued the case with the concerned hospitals and requested that proper medical treatment be given to the patient concerned. The patient is now being given proper medical treatment.
The Commission has directed that medical cases dealing with HIV positive patients, hospitals should offer proper treatment without the poor patients having to approach NHRC in future.
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