Man wrongly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Orissa..........???????????????

[Sidhu...Sidhaarth Roy]

Orissa's health department has begun a probe after a man was wrongly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS by a self-styled physician in a village here, officials said today.

Balaram Patra, 33, from the far-flung seaside Talchua village, who was later tested negative in the government-run diagnostic centre, has drawn the attention of police and health authorities to the issue.

Health authorities have ordered a departmental probe into the incident, while an FIR has been lodged against the diagnostic centre and the self-styled doctor, officials said.

The unsavoury episode lends credence to the oft-repeated charge that quacks are running parallel health service network in this coastal district.

"My life had taken a turn towards the worse after an erroneous medical report found me carrying HIV/AIDS virus. The government-run public health centre (PHC) at Talchua has become defunct and no doctor is turning up here," Patra, a local businessman, said.