An HIV patient in India went out to a market square and tried to sell off her newborn who has contracted the killer virus from her, the Hindustan Times reported Monday.
Tania, not her real name, had delivered a baby girl some two weeks ago at a government hospital in Jagdalpur, 280 km from Raipur, the capital of the Chhattisgarh state, the Hindustan Times said.
The news report quoted chief medical officer R. P. Pandey as saying that she was seen trying to sell her baby off at a market square in her Kondagaon locality.
Health authorities stopped her from selling off her baby and assured her of all possible medical treatment.
They, however, say Chhattisgarh is like to become one of the regions with high incidence of AIDS in India because of its economic backwardness, according to the news report.
Source: Xinhua
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