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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/05/25/stories/2008052555840300.htm)
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Orissa
Patient moves from pillar to post for aid
Correspondent
Mahima Goudo
KORAPUT: Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, which was established with a mission to support the poor for minimising their suffering from diseases, seems to have failed to reach the common man for its complexity and alleged lack of interest among the service providers to extend the facility to the people. At least this was true with Mahima Goudo, a poor woman from Ghodadwar village in Koraput block who has been moving from pillar to post for the last 13 years to get relieved from the serious infection in her chest. She was admitted to the district headquarters hospital a long time ago, according to hospital sources. But it has not been conformed whether she is suffering from TB or some other chest disease, the sources say. While she has been given some anti-TB drug in the beginning, she has not responded to the drug and discontinued it as it was more painful, says Mahima. Since then she has been taking some medicines by purchasing them from the open market. As things got wor!
se, she has been asked to leave her in-law’s house. She continued to suffer from the disease and without any support, not even from her husband, she is forced to stay with her parents for all these years.
There is no support from the health service providers to fight back her illness, she laments. At last she came to know about the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund and approached the local MLA with all the details of her illness.
Taraprasad Bahinipati, MLA, Koraput, has sent his recommendation to the CDMO’s office. But here too she has failed to get the support.
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