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| JK Government to set up AIDS counselling centres in hospitals | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 1: In the backdrop of rising cases of patients suffering from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the Jammu and Kashmir Government has planned to establish counselling centres in the hospitals to create awareness about the pandemic.
"The Health Department has planned to introduce counselling centres in almost all the district hospital of the state to make people aware of the disease and also to prevent patients tested positive from going into depression," sources in the department of Jammu and Kashmir State AIDS Prevention and Control Society here told.
They said the number of patients have increased in Jammu and Kashmir in the past five years.
Meanwhile sources said that “Every day one patient is being tested HIV positive across the state following which the department decided to establish counselling centres and appoint counsellors to deal with them.”
They said about 3,066 patients suffering from AIDS were detected in the past five years in Jammu and Kashmir out of which 1,371 were completely under the influence of the diseases, which included 65 per cent male and 35 per cent females.
"Patients suffering from the pandemic belonged to Jammu, Kathua and Srinagar districts," they said further adding that till October this year 405 patients tested HIV positive whereas in 2010, the figure was 461 and in 2009, it was 606 which showed that this year, less number of patients tested HIV positive.
"In the past five years, so far 203 people have died due this deadly disease as some of them either could not afford the treatment or were unaware of the plague," they added.
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