HILLBROW AIDS CLINIC DISRUPTED BY STRIKE
I was horrified to discover this morning that the HIV/Aids clinic at the Hillbrow Community Health Centre has been severely disrupted due to intimidation by striking workers.
This is one of the busiest Aids clinics in the country, and normally sees between 60 and 80 patients a day.
I saw about 100 patients waiting outside the closed doors of this clinic.
A doctor was physically forced to stop treating patients there at about 10 am on Thursday last week, and the clinic was then closed for the rest of that day and also on Friday.
Management is trying to make alternative arrangements as it is critical that anti-retroviral treatment is not interrupted in any way, otherwise life-threatening resistance can build up.