By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net
Working at the ART Centre, an Anti-Retroviral Treatment Centre at Medical College run by Aligarh Muslim University for HIV positive patients, a typical day for Unsa is busy. Attending to HIV+ patients, not just local but also from neighbouring districts, she keeps track of medication and monitors their health indicators.
Unlike any other department in a hospital, she feels that working here makes her interact with patients over a much longer time period. “Here, we can build relationships with them,” she continues with a smile, “and in other places, the relationship ends as soon as the patient gets discharged”. At the same time, there needs to be the right amount of counselling with a great deal of sensitivity, which requires a lot of emotional involvement too.
Ramadan is a trying month, catering to the workload at the clinic while fasting. With a calm and pleasing demeanour, she goes about her responsibilities considering them an opportunity provided by the Almighty to serve people.
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