The Mumbai District AIDS Control Society (MDACS) has launched an inquiry into allegations of discrimination against an HIV-positive patient at Shatabdi Hospital, Kandivali. The probe seeks to determine why two civic-run hospitals declined to operate on the patient despite medical urgency.

Patient Denied Surgery at Two Civic Hospitals

Last week, a 37-year-old Malvani resident living with HIV arrived at Shatabdi Hospital with severe abdominal pain. Medical tests confirmed appendicitis, requiring urgent surgery.

However, after learning of his HIV status, doctors at Shatabdi Hospital allegedly referred him to Cooper Hospital. Cooper, too, sent him back without performing the operation. The patient, still in severe pain, returned to Shatabdi, where treatment was again denied.

He was eventua

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