Unpaid salaries worsens HIV/AIDS victims’ condition in Osun

A non-governmental organisation, Hope for Family Development Initiative, has said the non-payment of workers’ salaries in Osun Accompaniment is accepting austere abrogating furnishings on the bloom of some bodies active with HIV in the state.
The Executive Director of HFDI, Mr. Stephen Aremu, who said this at a columnist appointment in Osogbo on Monday, declared that the bang boarded aloft by workers was preventing PLWHIV from accessing their drugs at government hospitals.
According to Aremu, the contributed salaries accept led to the abortive afterlife of abounding residents, adage some ailing pensioners and workers had died because they did not accept money to buy drugs to cure their ailments.
He said, “Most of the bodies active with HIV are award it absurd to get their drugs because government hospitals are bankrupt due to the bang boarded aloft by some categories of bloom workers. “Also, the akin of abjection in Osun Accompaniment today is top and no admeasurement is put in abode by the accompaniment government to anticipate the poverty, which has acquired abounding diseases affecting accouchement and even the age-old in altered locations of the state.
“Also, abounding lives accept been absent as a aftereffect of the present bread-and-butter accident in the state. It is on almanac that over 238 pensioners accept died in Osun Accompaniment in the endure one year as a aftereffect of the non-payment of their alimony and added allowances. “It is on almanac that the afterlife amount in the accompaniment has added geometrically, and this is acquired by the present prevailing bearings in the state. A lot of humans died of ache while abounding died of accessory curable sicknesses. The could cause of this afterlife centres on abridgement of money. “Causes of these deaths are preventable if the victims had acceptable money to baby for their bloom and claimed needs. It is bright that the bread-and-butter accident in the accompaniment was amenable for the death. This is adverse and awful disappointing.” Copyright 9jainfonews.
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