Increasing Patients in Hubs

Wow! Yesterday a pozzie that I was assisting, stayed and waited for his lab results in RITM-ARG. He texted me that there were more than 45 patients waiting for their consultations and ARV refill there. On another hub, I read a tweet that yesterday in San Lazaro Hospital, there were more than 80 patients waiting for consultation, CD4 test and ARV refill. Unfortunately, I don't have figures from UP-PGH SAGIP, but I bet that their patient number also increased by a lot.

Now that the patient number is increasing, I do hope that our government will listen to the statistics. We need more help when it comes to assistance for HIV/AIDS patients. Eventually, space will be limited because these 3 major hubs can't accomodate everyone if the number doubles months from now. I hope that when the Global Fund ends in supporting our free ARV's program, PhilHealth will be able to finance all the ARV's for everybody.

There are more to be done. More preventive measures or else everybody will suffer. More information drives should be campaigned for so people will stop getting infected and spreading the virus.

We must do our part. The time is NOW! Educate people. Tell all your previous sexual partners that they need to be tested. Give them all details on where to get a free HIV test.

The increasing number of patients in the main hubs is a reality. We all should do our part now in stopping the spread of HIV in our country!