These days there is a stir in the Jhansi District Jail of Uttar Pradesh. The reason for the uproar is that 14 of the prisoners lodged here were found to be AIDS victims. While apart from this, 12 prisoners have also been found in whom symptoms of fatal disease like TB have been found. At present, as soon as all these facts are revealed, the jail administration has taken precautionary steps. So that the rest of the prisoners can be saved from contagious diseases like TB. Not only this, more than 75 prisoners lodged here are said to have been in the grip of various other serious diseases. For whose treatment the district jail administration has been busy for a long time.
It is not yet known whether the 14 prisoners who have been found to have symptoms of AIDS were HIV positive before entering the jail. Or has he got this deadly disease after reaching inside the jail? The internal committee of the jail is engaged in its investigation. If we talk about other than these 14 AIDS-afflicted sick prisoners, then 12 prisoners are TB patients. Along with this, 3 patients are suffering from fatal disease like cancer. 22 inmates are suffering from sugar and 24 other inmates are suffering from blood pressure disease.
1600 prisoners living in a jail with a capacity of 536 prisoners
Out of these sick patients (prisoners), the doctor has been told that he is seriously suffering from heart disease. One of them has to undergo bypass surgery and the other has to undergo heart surgery. Jhansi District Jail Officer (Senior Jail Superintendent) Rang Bahadur Patel also confirms these facts to the media. According to him, measures are being taken to provide better medical facilities to all these sick prisoners. A grant has also been sought for a potentially huge amount to be spent on the treatment of some prisoners. If we talk about the prisoners lodged in Jhansi District Jail, then here, there is a capacity to keep 536 prisoners imprisoned. Under compulsion, but at present the number of prisoners lodged here is around 1600. Due to the imprisonment of many times the number of prisoners in the jail, there is a possibility of spreading diseases.
Risk of diseases even in healthy prisoners
However, the district jail administration has made arrangements ranging from homeopathy, allopathy to Ayurveda medicine and doctors. The most difficult thing here is the crowd of prisoners. In which the District Jail Administration cannot do anything even after desiring lakhs. This is a matter of the state government level. Due to this crowd of prisoners, most of the prisoners confined here are troubled. But, the biggest problem is faced by the sick prisoners lodged here. Due to this crowd of prisoners, the risk of other healthy prisoners also getting infected with various diseases also remains all the time.
It is not that there is a shortage of doctors or medical facilities here. The number of prisoners is much more than the arrangements that are there. Increased number of sick prisoners from above. If the District Jail Administration is to be believed, doctors also visit the prisoners for regular health checkup. Even after this, but at present, 75 of the prisoners lodged here are in the grip of diseases, it is a serious matter.