The doctor who unearthed Ratodero’s HIV epidemic
Two years on, Dr Arbani continues to serve his patients, despite no assistance from govt
It was on April 24, 2019 that the world was familiarised with a scare that had been plaguing Ratodero, a remote, sleepy town located 30 kilometres north of Larkana, for days, or may be weeks, or even months. For the rest of the world, it was the beginning of a terrifying tale that it would witness from afar. For the unsuspecting residents of Rato Dero, it was the dawn of the realisation that they were in the middle of an emergency with seemingly no end in sight.