For the testing of HIV, AIDS and other venereal diseases, the health department will hold camps in 250 villages in the state. In the camps to be organised in these villages of 13 districts health of thousands of migrants will be tested, so that infection of diseased should be spread.
According to sources, hundreds of people of the areas go other states in search of job and all of them back their homes during festivals. Every year the health of all such people are being tested and all the sick were treated. On the orders of NACO, the AIDS Control Society would hold camps for the health check up of people in October.
It is said that during 2011, camps were held in 28 villages in seven districts of the state, in which health check up of 15,000 migrants were done. Similarly, in 2012, 30,000 people were checked in 54 villages of 11 districts and this year, preparation are on to hold camps in 250 villages of 13 districts.
This year camps will be organised in Gariaband, Rajnandgaon, Kawardha, Raigarh, Janjgir-Champa, Durg, Bemetara, Korba, Bilaspur, Mahasamund, Balod, Dhamtari and Kanker districts.
Joint director of State AIDS Control Society Mahendra Kumar Janghel said that thousands of people from Chhattisgarh go to Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu and other nearby states in search of job and they return during festival season. As such, if they carry any infectious disease, it might be spread. It was the reason why the health check up of migrants are being done by holding camps in the villages across the state marked by Panchayats, he added.
He said that in the camps doctors along with their team from the nearby hospitals were being deployed. Besides HIV, AIDS and venereal diseases, tests of TB, malaria, cold, cough and fever were being tested and medicines would also be given to them. Pregnant women would be given free medicines after registering their name. However, he said, very less migrants were found affected by infectious diseases.