Around one lakh people from India and China die every year of Hepatitis-B. There is a need to create awareness on the disease, which is more infectious and communicable than the HIV/AIDS, felt the professors and members of Gastroenterology department of Andhra Medical College (AMC). They also revealed that they get around 60 Hepatitis-B patients from the city every month for treatment. The department observed the ‘World Hepatitis Day’ on their premises here Monday. The professors had a meeting on the measures to be taken to implement their ‘Project Habeeb’.

On the occasion, HoD Murali Krishna said that Hepatitis is such a disease, where 80 per cent of the infected persons don’t even know that they are infected. As such there is a need to create awareness among the people. The Gastroenterology department as part of its ‘Project Habeeb’, organised camps to create awareness on the Hepatitis-B disease and precautionary measures to be taken. “We vaccinated around 1,800 people, including patients, hospital staff, municipal school children below seven years for free in the previous years and this year we would do likewise.” A vaccination camp was conducted in the Visakhapatnam Central Jail here Sunday, said Murali Krishna

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