TAKING NOTE of rapid rise in number of AIDS patients in eastern UP, Indian Medical Association, Gorakhpur branch, has decided to organise week-long workshop to create awareness on AIDS and HIV positive patients in the region.
The workshop will be organised in collaboration with the National AIDS Control Organisation and Clinton Foundation.
Taking to mediapersons, district coordinator of the programme Dr PP Gupta and president of IMA Dr RB Dwivedi said that a specially trained team of Dr KN Sharma, Dr Reena Srivastava and Dr PP Gupta of BRD Medical College along with Dr Sadhna Gupta, would perform as instructors the workshop where around 400 medical practitioners would be trained in eight batches.
Few centres have been made in the district for organising workshops. It will be organised at MRI centre Bank Road and Jeevan Jyoti Hospital at Bobbina Road.
The first batch will start from October 7 at MRI centre while the next batch will start from October 8 at Jeevan Jyoti Hospital. Similarly, in the second phase, the first batch will start on November 4 and second batch on November 5. The trainees will be provided certificates and handbooks along with CDs to teach people to save themselves from the dreaded disease.
Gupta has appealed to all the physicians to register their names at the coordinating office.
{{/usCountry}}Gupta has appealed to all the physicians to register their names at the coordinating office.
{{/usCountry}}He said the camp would focus on preventive methods to check the spread of the disease. It would identify the patients through voluntary functioning test at ART, PEP, PPTCC and OE. Responding to a question, Dr Gupta said stressed would be laid to remove misconception among people regarding the disease.