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| Family bears brunt of wrong ... |
| She was diagnosed as being HIV- positive first, during a mandatory checkup and advised to abort the baby.
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| INDIA
, 12-February-2008
0:35:9 AM |
| A medical diagnosis went wrong for 25-year-old Laxmi, a young mother to be in Orissa with dreadful consequences.
She was diagnosed as being HIV- positive first, during a mandatory checkup and advised to abort the baby.
However, she double-checked at a Cuttack hospital, which came up with the same result.
''I was told I had contracted AIDS and I would die in the next two months. They asked me to abort the baby because the disease would pass on to the offspring. I was asked to stay away from my husband,'' said Laxmi Das, victim of medical negligence.
Soon the news of a HIV positive mother being allowed to deliver her baby spread and her village started ill-treating the entire family.
''After the word spread, we were not only ostracized but faced a lot of humiliation and abuse. I was told Berhampur is the best HIV testing centre and I decided to go there,'' said Bansidhar Das, father-in-law.
Laxmi got herself re-checked under a changed name at the MKCG College Hospital in Berhampur, the only specialised centre for HIV in Orissa.
To her joy, the tests here proved negative. She was not HIV positive. Laxmi's family has slapped a compensation suit in the Consumer Forum for all the trauma they went through for ten months.
''It's not free service, money was charged from them for the test. Since the test results were false and entailed great suffering from the victim and her family, they deserve to be suitably compensated,'' said Pitambar Panda, Laxmi's Counsel, Jagatsinghpur.
Laxmi's fight is not so much for money; it is to make sure others don't go through the same ordeal because of wrong tests.
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