By dr neelima atal mohanty | head communications
Girl child at Hyderabad care home
Background
Partially blind girl child was found sitting idle at Film Nagar,Sai Baba temple, in Hyderabad.She was identified by the Tv 5 [telegu news channel ] team. The child is infected with HIV+ as both parents turned out to be positive cases.She lost both the parents with HIV earlier. After knowing about the child situation, TV5 director and his team admitted the girl in DESIRE Society,Hyderabad Institutional care home.
Changes in life pattern of child
Since the child was admitted in the DESIRE Society ,we are rendering its best for the quality of life . At the time of admission ,she was malnourished and badly required medical attention. Main challenge was to improve her CD 4 count which was found to be very low. She was offered proper counseling, treatment and medicines for opportunistic infections (OIs) by our medical team. She has received round the clock health care and monitoring.
The child was put on ART (Antiretroviral Treatment, a lifesaving drug) immediately after admission to care home. She is also put with a balanced diet as ART has got more side effects. DESIRE Society has put more attention on planned nutritional diet which truly helped this child to continue drug adherence. So this led her to gain physical weight . After these continuous efforts are put by DESIRE, now her health condition is getting stable and heading towards progression.
Consultation for her eye treatment is under process DESIRE Society is working to bring support for the treatment and for the connectivity of the eye hospital in this regard. Extra care by care takers is focused in her case.
Initially, in campus schooling is assigned in her case and she sits with zeal to study further in outside school too. This year the transformation in her schooling is observed. We got her admitted in private school along with other inmates of care home. She is performing well in studies.
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