4 HIV/Aids infected kids driven out from home

  • 20/06/2008

  • Kathmandu Post (Nepal)

Local health workers have rescued four children infected with HIV/AIDS from remote Belapur VDC after they were they were thrown out from their home. Four children of a family-- Laxmi BK, 15, Suni BK, 13, Tej BK, 11 and Karishma BK, 6-- were driven out from their house after they were found to be patients of HIV/AIDS. Jahare Luhar, the grandfather of the destitute children drove them out from the house mercilessly. The children, whose parents died of HIV/AIDS , were pushed into grave difficulty after their grandfather took such a decision. They had been taking refuge at their maternal uncle Krishna BK's house in the same VDC before they were brought to the district headquarters on Thursday. Health workers, who reached at the village for a two-day health camp organized by the district public health office, rescued the children. Organizing a press meet on Friday, the medicos informed that all the four have been infected with HIV/AIDS and two of them are in critical condition. Tej and Laxmi were in an unconscious state while they were being presented at the press meet. They are also suffering from tuberculosis.