HIV + patient

Had a HIV + patient (aged 35) come for a checkup along with his wife n daughter… he had mostly got his HIV through his exploits with a prostitute… a look at his very innocent looking wife and kid made me ponder their future… I hoped the kid was conceived before his exploits so that she having the disease was unlikely… but then what about his wife… when this man couldn’t hold on to his sexual urge at ‘that’ point of time, it was unlikely that he may control it on his wife in future.. she was bound to contract it in future… I couldn’t do anything but pity on his family and their future… the kid was amused on seeing her father getting checked.. she was smiling and playing around… just the thought of maybe the innocent looking kid having the disease brought tears in my eyes… anger swelled in me for the patient… but now that the damage was already done… I felt helpless… if he could have avoided that one moment of urge, things could have been different today…
What exactly is the thing that compels a guy to go to a prostitute for his sexual gratification…??? I have tried to find it out by indirectly asking people I know who have been involved in this thing… but am still unable to get a satisfactory answer… one said… it was out of frustration… one went just for the sake of curiosity… one for fun… one went to see if he would be able to satisfy his wife since he was soon to get married… he said it would rather face an embarrassment before a prostitute than his wife… one went because the other went… so there were multiple factors involved… but then at what cost?? Haven’t they heard of something know as HIV or HBsAg??? These are viruses having no treatment at present… maybe someone should put photos of people suffering from HIV… maybe that would deter many from opting for such step… but then I have known even a doctor I knew going for the same… so… what else???

MA NIKETAN

Had the chance of paying a visit to an orphanage named MA NIKETAN in thane… it houses around 385 girls aged 4 to 22 yrs… such a wonderfully maintained orphanage… and most important was that there was proper utilization of funds and donation… all donors present there were very happy with the way the donations are used at tht place.. even the girls present there were smiling.. and of course their health showed that they were well cared for over there…
But the sad thing was that all these girls had either been abandoned by their parents or had been left alone after parents death or had run away from home… there were two 4 yr old girls who were left behind by their parents.. one look at them and you would want to literally kill those ppl who might have left them… they have one more branch at asangaon.. where there are around 400 girls..
If anyone can then they should go pay a visit to this orphanage sometime… if they are interested in volunteering themselves for help then they can join a NGO named UDAAN of whom even I am a member… we had a medical camp at tht place where I did their eye check up…

religion in transplants...!!!

Had a patient with severe pain, redness and watering in his left eye due to a problem of his cornea (black part of eye).. I advised him corneal transplant where I would fit a cornea of a donor into him… I explained the surgery and its benefits and complications to the patient… To my wonder more than the risks and complications of the procedure, the patient was more worried about who the donor might be… I mean religion wise and otherwise also… I was so surprised… I felt amused and angry at the same time… here he was in severe pain and all he thought of who the donor might be… not at all thinking that a person who was donating his eyes is by all means a very great person… and I wasn’t surprised at all that the patient was a maharashtrian… I myself am one but when it comes to eye and organ donations Marathi people are the last to volunteer… I realized that there is a great need of spreading awareness among people about eye donations…