By Dr neelima atal mohanty | head communications
Situation:
Balraj hails from rural area of Lingarajipet, Mutraja Pally village, Gajwel Mandal , Medak District –Telangana. He is the elder of the two siblings (Ganesh and Kumar) Born to agriculture labors Bala Narsai and Bharathi. Both the couples were infected with HIV and lost their lives due to this deadly virus AIDS & unfortunately Balraju and younger one Ganesh were also infected with HIV during their birth. The grandparents recognized this later. After knowing about the HIV infection to the children the grandparents were in helpless situation to lend their helping hand to these small children’s due to poverty and stigma associated with HIV / AIDS. The Grandparents are too old and not in situation to care of these children’s, the old parents brought the two children’s Ganesh and Balraj to the DESIRE society.They came to know about DESIRE Society from our outreach worker’s presence in their community.
Master Balraj at DESIRE Society:
Since the child was admitted on 05th June 2007, the DESIRE Society has been rendering its best for the quality and extended life span for this child. At the time when the" Master Balraj" was admitted he was malnourished, badly required medical attention as he was neglected by his family members due to poor socio economic conditions. His CD4 count was 200cells/ml which was supposed to be at least 500 level. He was offered proper counseling, treatment and medicines for opportunistic infections (OIs) by our medical team. He is also able to receive round the clock health care and monitoring. Master Balraj was put on ART (Antiretroviral Treatment, a lifesaving drug) as her CD4 count was low. He is also put with a balanced diet as ART has got more side effects. Exactly here DESIRE Society has put more attention on planned nutritional diet which truly helped this child to continue drug adherence, thus lead him to gain physical weight and height improvement. After these continuous efforts have put by DESIRE, now Master Balraj health condition is getting stable and heading progress. Improved health condition has blessed this boy to resume his education. Now he is in Degree Second Year while attending a Government Degree College, Located in BHEL Township RC Puram.
“I want to become a charted Accountant by that I want to serve my village people and take care of two brothers” are the words of this innocent Master Balraj. We at DESIRE Society hope Master Balraj should live long and may his dreams come true like a normal boy via contributions from well wishers.
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