Any hospice angels in orissa?

lotus blossom

this is a tragic story. i do not know if it is possible to help, but if there are any hospice workers or just caring angels, maybe this guy could get some compassionate care. wish someone could talk to the family so the mother could be there with him while he is dying.
----

Thursday November 17, 07:59 AM
Abandoned by family, AIDS patient awaits death

Kendrapara (Orissa), Nov 17 (IANS) Abandoned by those who should have nursed him, a 42-year-old man is waiting to die of AIDS - all alone in his house in an Orissa village.

Now, Pradeep Nayak, with life ebbing out, is spending what could be his last days in a rickety thatched house in Patrapur village, 30 km from Kendrapara town in this eastern Indian coastal state.

Nayak has been in a critical condition for the past several months, often falling unconscious with no one around to attend on him.

'Why are they not coming to my room? I have little time left,' he murmurs as neighbours occasionally drop in.

Nayak had been a plumber in Kolkata. Last year he was declared an AIDS patient, a development that dramatically changed his life.

Mortified at the prospect of having to live with an AIDS patient, his mother, brother, wife and daughters have deserted him.

His wife Sanjukta, 35, moved to her father's house along with their two daughters three months ago. Nayak's elder brother Arun left the village with his wife and children last month to take up a house on rent in a distant village.

His mother Rama too left him last month.

All efforts by the local primary health centre, social workers and officials of the district AIDS cell to bring them back have failed.

A social worker who tried to counsel the family that AIDS cannot be contracted by physical contact said he was threatened by Nayak's brother.

Nayak's mother Rama said she wants to be with her dying son but had been advised against it.

'I am helpless. My elder son asked me not to touch him. So I am staying away,' she said.

His wife said she and her daughters were forced to leave Nayak after some villagers began treating them badly -- because of the stigma attached to AIDS.

Ever since his family abandoned him, Nayak has been depending on some neighbours who give him food.

AIDS has killed 459 people in Orissa between January 2002 and September 2005. Of them 163 deaths took place in Ganjam district and 56 in Kendrapara district.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/051117/43/612wh.html

__________________
Not all who wander are lost