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Indian Health Ministry Wants Free Transport and Wage Guarantee for HIV Patients
Only Wednesday the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) had obtained the Supreme Court’s approval for a scheme to step up medical facilities for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). It was at the time the court had directed the medical community not to deny treatment to the PLHA segment.
The NACO is also said to have mobilized mobilised $700 million to fight the AIDS. It is now planning to set up 650 link anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centres across the country.
Meantime federal Health Secretary Naresh Dayal has written to his counterparts in the ministries of railways, transport, food and rural development seeking a slew of concessions for PLHA.
His letter notes that though the government is providing free treatment to HIV patients, that by itself was not sufficient to alleviate their problems.
Their earning capacity might have already been hampered because of the disease, and they might find it difficult even to commute to the ART centres for treatment.
In the circumstances, providing them more concessions should be in order, Dayal argues.
Wage or employment guarantee under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme has generally come in for praise from economists, though it is only a modest effort, guaranteeing jobs for 100 days in a year to poorer households.
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