KARACHI:Sindh AIDS Control Program (SACP) has established two more HIV Treatment Centres in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and Sindh Government Lyari General Hospital (LGH), Karachi to facilitate HIV patients.
The SACP has set up four more HIV/AIDS Treatment Centres in Sindh province: two in Karachi, one in Sukkur and one in Hyderabad.
However, three more HIV Treatment Centres would be made operational in Karachi, Shaheed Benazirabad and Mirpurkhas soon.
Sources at Sindh AIDS Control Program told PPI that SACP had planned to establish seven HIV Treatment Centers across the Sindh province; out of them four have already been made operational while three others would be made functional soon.
Currently there are six HIV/AIDS Centres in Sindh province: three operating in Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, and one each in Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana Hospital for treatment of HIV patients.
The HIV Treatment Centre in Shaheed Benazirabad, Mirpurkhas and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital would be made functional within a month.
Program Manager Sindh AIDS Control Program (SACP) Dr Mohammad Younis Chachar, while talking to PPI, said four more HIV Treatment Centres are made operational in Sindh province and three others would start functioning within two weeks.
Earlier, HIV Treatment Centers were operating in Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, Indus Hospital Karachi, Aga Khan Hospital and in Larkana district under the supervision of SACP to control the prevalence of HIV/AIDS disease in Sindh province.