Jammu, June 15: As many as 220 HIV positive cases have been detected in the last 22 months in Jammu in Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH). "Eighty females and 140 males were found HIV positive during tests at GMCH's laboratory between August 2001 to March 2003 in Jammu," Deputy Medical Superintendent Yashpal Sharma said here today.

Most of cases were inter-state truckers, he said.


As many as 1,444 suspected aids cases were referred to GMCH in this period, Sharma said.
"We have best testing facilities here for the detection of AIDS/HIV cases," he added.
Sharma said that 313 victims of bomb blasts were treated in 2001-2002 and 451 in 2002-03 in the hospital.
Bureau Report