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A caller spike successful reported HIV cases successful and astir Perumbavoor successful Ernakulam territory has drawn renewed attraction to healthcare challenges among migrant workers. As galore arsenic 15 radical tested HIV-positive successful the country implicit the past fewer months.
While the workers who tested HIV-positive are presently undergoing treatment, the emergence of these cases has highlighted the urgent request to code broader healthcare gaps wrong the migrant community.
In an effort to code the emerging concerns, the Health department, on with the Kerala State AIDS Control Society (KSACS), is jointly organising a mega consciousness programme and aesculapian campy connected February 22, 2026.
The time volition besides people the motorboat of Niramaya Pravas 2026, a run spearheaded by the KSACS successful collaboration with assorted authorities departments. The inaugural focuses connected promoting the wide wellness and well-being of migrant workers crossed the State.
According to Reshmi Madhavan, associated director, KSACS, wellness challenges proceed to stay a substance of interest among the migrant community. “It is observed that their precedence is employment. Health figures arsenic an country of slightest priority. We request to bring them into the ambit of healthcare with owed diligence,” Ms. Madhavan said. According to her, the absorption should beryllium connected empowering the assemblage to question aesculapian assistance erstwhile faced with an illness, beryllium it a sexually transmitted illness oregon immoderate different disease.
“The absorption is connected creating consciousness among the community, getting them aesculapian assistance and preventing the dispersed of diseases. Hence, we are readying intensive campaigns crossed the State targeting the community,” said Ms. Madhavan.
One of the main challenges faced by the section is keeping way of members of the migrant community, officials said. “It has been observed that their absorption is connected staying employed. So adjacent erstwhile diagnosed with a disease, they bash not instrumentality for follow-up treatment. When we effort to way them, they would person moved to different locations for work. The lack of due registers and documentation is proving to beryllium a challenge,” said Dr. Rosamma P.S., Medical Superintendent, Government Taluk Hospital, Perumbavoor.
Perumbavoor municipal chairperson K.N. Sangeetha said that regular aesculapian camps would besides beryllium held to code the healthcare challenges of the region.
