With a view to create awareness among the adolescent age group regarding HIV-AIDS, a workshop was organised by DVC hospital, Bokaro Thermal at the station club, on Saturday.
To take part in the workshop, Dr Chandrayi Banerjee, BGH, Bokaro and Dr Asutosh Kumar Thakur from the Medanta Hospital, Ranchi were also present to educate and highlight various topics related to HIV positives. Later on the students of Carmel school and Kendriya Vidhyalya, Bokaro Thermal, who were attending the workshop were educated on various aspects of HIV-AIDS, which included the routes of its spread, people who were more at risk for falling prey to HIV infection, prevention of HIV-AIDS, its global scenario, role of women in HIV prevention, legal social aspects and human rights issue.
A team of doctors gave the information to the students and even BTPS DVC based doctors and staffs to make the students and local people understand the different aspects of HIV-AIDS in a better way. Other than this a movie was also screened during the workshop regarding the issue.
Speaking on the occasion the Dy Chief Medical Officer (Dy CMO) of DVC Hospital Dr S Bhattacharya said, “Today HIV infection is spreading with a rapid speed in the country, therefore, it could only be controlled with proper awareness and HIV education.”
“So that none of the HIV positives are being left out from the society and can lead a normal and quality life,” Dr Bhattacharya added.
The whole session was followed by question answer round on various scenarios of daily life. Separate rounds of interaction were held and a lot of queries regarding AIDS were resolved. During the workshop BTPS chief engineer Kamlesh Kumar and his wife Shikha Jha, Dr S. Bhatachrya, Dr Veni K. Dr Nitish Kumar and others hospital nursing staffs were present on the occasion.