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"Teaching the public ways to deal with
HIV victims"
The
Star (www.thestar.com.my)
(16/11/06)
THE state government is holding talks and seminars for the public on how to
deal with HIV sufferers.
State Health, Welfare and Caring Society Committee chairman P.K. Subbaiyah
said he was informed of a case where a member of a family who was diagnosed
with HIV was locked up in a room.
“Eventually, the sufferer was rescued and taken to the Penang Hospital which
later send the person to a shelter home,” he told reporters after opening
Rumah CASP Community AIDS Service Penang in Jalan Thomas in Penang recently.
He said the shelter home serves as a halfway home for those with HIV/AIDS
recovering from opportunistic infections.
“Once they get better, they are encouraged to get a job and get back to
society and carry on with their lives,” he added.
CASP now houses a 68-year old patient from Farlim who is bedridden.
According to Malaysian AIDS Council deputy president Datuk A Vaithilingam,
CASP was the only such shelter home in the northern region allocated with
RM88,000 a year grant from the council.
CASP first operated at Jalan Kampung Melayu in Air Itam in 1994 before
moving to four other places including Tanjung Bungah, Maclister Road,
Kompleks Penyayang, Western Gardens.
It now operates at Jalan Thomas.
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