LARKANA, June 11: A team of doctors from the Chandka Medical College Hospital and district health office will examine prisoners in the central prison, Larkana, on June 16 to detect AIDS cases in response to a letter from the superintendent of the prison.

The medical officer of the prison, in a letter to the jail superintendent, advised carrying out blood screening of imprisoned drug addicts to detect possible AIDS cases as one case had already been found in the prison.

Subsequently, jail superintendent Manzoor Ahmed Memon requested the medical superintendent of the CMCH and the executive district officer, health, for conducting blood tests of the inmates.

The first case of AIDS was diagnosed in Larkana district in 1990.