900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
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Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#2This news report makes my mind boggle. Reuse of syringes? In this century?
The doctor says he was too poor to afford syringes! So reuse of syringes is the solution? Bill the cost of the syringe to the patient. Ask for donations. Do whatever it takes but never reuse a syringe. How can a doctor find reuse of syringes remotely acceptable?
Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#3If 900 children have HIV then how many thousands of other children have blood born infectious diseases related to this guy?
Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#4I mean not exactly surprising. We literally just had a measles outbreak in Brooklyn last year. Vaccination rates are basically a prediction market on events like this happening.
Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#5>Health officials now say that Mr. Ghanghro is unlikely to be the sole cause of the outbreak. Visiting health workers saw many cases of doctors reusing syringes and I.V. needles. Barbers take the same razor to the faces of multiple customers, they said, and roadside dentists crack away at patients’ teeth on sidewalks with unsterilized tools.
Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#6>Health officials now say that Mr. Ghanghro is unlikely to be the sole cause of the outbreak. Visiting health workers saw many cases of doctors reusing syringes and I.V. needles. Barbers take the same razor to the faces of multiple customers, they said, and roadside dentists crack away at patients’ teeth on sidewalks with unsterilized tools.
Even here in Melbourne the barber offers to use a cutthroat razor to give the neck a clean shave after a haircut.
He's always a little puzzled when I'm "no thanks" to the razor.
Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#7In some jurisdictions, auto-disposable needles are now required to be used to prevent things like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_syringe
Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#8This news report makes my mind boggle. Reuse of syringes? In this century? The doctor says he was too poor to afford syringes! So reuse of syringes is the solution? Bill the cost of the syringe to the patient. Ask for donations. Do whatever it takes but never reuse a syringe. How can a doctor find reuse of syringes remotely acceptable?
This is how poverty works - they probably genuinely have no way if getting the needed stuff even if they knew how important it is.
Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#9I mean not exactly surprising. We literally just had a measles outbreak in Brooklyn last year. Vaccination rates are basically a prediction market on events like this happening.
Unfortunately, I doubt the children of Pakistan are getting a vaccine against HIV.
Re: 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
#10We will possibly end up with nearly 1000 children killed by a single man.
A sobering reminder that our problems are, almost always, nothing in comparison.