A Public Service Message by Bilal Malik

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 11th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized • No Responses •

Dear Friends, A few weeks ago, in a movie theatre, a person felt something poking from herseat. When she got up to see what it was, she found a needle sticking out of theseat with a note attached saying “You have just been infected by HIV”. The Disease Control Center (in Paris ) reports many similar events in many othercities recently. All tested needles were HIV Positive. The Center also reports that needles have been found in cash dispensers atpublic banking machines.We ask everyone to use extreme caution when faced withthis kind of situation. All public chairs/seats should be inspected withvigilance and caution before use. A careful visual inspection should be enough.In addition, they ask that each of you pass this message along to all members ofyour family and your friends of the potential danger. Recently, one doctor has narrated a somewhat similar instance that happened to one of his patients at the Priya Cinema in Delhi. Ayoung girl, engaged and about to be married in a couple of months, was prickedwhile the movie was going on. The tag with the needle had the message “Welcometo the World of HIV family”. Though the doctors told her family that it takesabout 6 months before the virus grows strong enough to start damaging the systemand a healthy victim could survive about 5-6 years, the girl died in 4 months, perhaps more because of the “Shock thought”. We all have to be careful at public places, rest God help! Just think aboutsaving a life by forwarding this message. Please, take a few seconds of yourtime to pass alongRather than forwarding irrelevant mails, kindly pass this to every one. Probablyur mail can help some save his/her life.