Following the negative practices where medical officers are selling HIV/AIDs drugs to HIV/AID patients in the Rivers State owned Hospitals, the Commissioner for Health, Rivers State, Dr. Sampson Parker has stated that HIV/AIDs drugs are free pointing out that anyone caught selling the drugs to patients shall be dealth with decisively.
According to the Health Commissioner HIV/AIDs drugs in all the government hospitals are free appealing to patients to register and benefit from the kind gesture of the Rivers State government.
He also said more doctors will be trained to serve in the rural areas so that those at the rural areas will not come to Port Harcourt for treatment of the scourge.
Dr. Parker maintained that more HIV/AIDs facilities have been procured and more doctors also will be trained to handle the facilities to combat the deadly scourge.
According to him as effective the treatment, patients could not distribute the scourge, adding that health centre is everywhere and advised patients to register in the health centre closed to them, while instructing patients to report any medical officer selling the drugs to them, saying that they will be made to refund all they have collected from patients. ###
Allanso Jonathan Allanso
