Nuapada AIDS-hit driver turns good Samaritan
Saturday, 09 March 2019 | AJIT PANDA
| NUAPADA
An auto driver here is providing free 24/7 emergency ambulance services to patients in nearby villages of the Komna CHC.
“The man providing free auto services to patients to reach hospital in spite of his ill health. The Government ambulance service may get delayed for a few minutes, but this man’s vehicle reaches in time,” said the people of Komna. Most pertinent point is the messiah of the locality is HIV positive. "After I was detected positive, the doctors advised me to take my wife for diagnosis and unfortunately she was also tested positive," said the man.
The auto owner was a ganja smuggler till he was caught red handed in 2010 in a town of Andhra Pradesh. After spending several months in jail, when he was released, he had turned a different man. However, by tthat time, he had been affected by AIDS. “When I knew about our health conditions, we got shocked. We have five children, it is the mercy of the God that our children are safe,” he said.
Coming back to the village, the auto owner informed the villagers about the disease without any fear. "I was ready to face all consequences like ostracising from the village, but astonishingly the villagers gave me courage. They provided me with support and in the last eight years, we have never felt alienated from society. My children are reading in schools and they have also never been discriminated,” he told.
He took the auto rickshaw on loan with a repayment schedule of Rs 6,800 per month. He claimed that he has already helped several persons to reach to the hospital free of cost. In some cases, he has even extended financial support to the patients to buy food and medicine.
The man has clearly mentioned his mobile numbers and details regarding 24/7 free commuting services in a display board hanged to the auto. Both he and his wife are getting a pension of Rs 300 per month from the Government. They are also getting medicines free of cost from the CHC, Komna. "We are happy; we have never felt depressed due to HIV. We thank the villagers, the society for their greatness," said he.
An auto driver here is providing free 24/7 emergency ambulance services to patients in nearby villages of the Komna CHC.
“The man providing free auto services to patients to reach hospital in spite of his ill health. The Government ambulance service may get delayed for a few minutes, but this man’s vehicle reaches in time,” said the people of Komna. Most pertinent point is the messiah of the locality is HIV positive. "After I was detected positive, the doctors advised me to take my wife for diagnosis and unfortunately she was also tested positive," said the man.
The auto owner was a ganja smuggler till he was caught red handed in 2010 in a town of Andhra Pradesh. After spending several months in jail, when he was released, he had turned a different man. However, by tthat time, he had been affected by AIDS. “When I knew about our health conditions, we got shocked. We have five children, it is the mercy of the God that our children are safe,” he said.
Coming back to the village, the auto owner informed the villagers about the disease without any fear. "I was ready to face all consequences like ostracising from the village, but astonishingly the villagers gave me courage. They provided me with support and in the last eight years, we have never felt alienated from society. My children are reading in schools and they have also never been discriminated,” he told.
He took the auto rickshaw on loan with a repayment schedule of Rs 6,800 per month. He claimed that he has already helped several persons to reach to the hospital free of cost. In some cases, he has even extended financial support to the patients to buy food and medicine.
The man has clearly mentioned his mobile numbers and details regarding 24/7 free commuting services in a display board hanged to the auto. Both he and his wife are getting a pension of Rs 300 per month from the Government. They are also getting medicines free of cost from the CHC, Komna. "We are happy; we have never felt depressed due to HIV. We thank the villagers, the society for their greatness," said he.
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