Need for insurance for Counsellors

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Dear Forum,

The sad demise of the male counselor of Jabalpur VCCTC Mr. Sanjay Shrivastav

compels us to stop, and think for some moments towards the risk which all the

contractual employees working under the National AIDS Control Programme face. It

is not that employees under other programmes or in private sector do not face

any risk. The contractual employees like counsellors, lab technicians and many

post in the AIDS Control Society are exposed to various kind of risks. The

salary is low and the jobs are demanding.

The least we can do on this sad occassion of death of Mr. Sanjay Shrivastav is

to start a movement, demanding some kind of insurance cover for all the

employees under the National AIDS Control Programe. We are sure that when ever

any of us just thinks of the pain that the family of Mr. Sanjay Shrivastav would

be undergoing, we will realise that the monetary support in form of insurance

would have been the least which a program could have done for its employees.

But, as of now there is nothing like that.

Regards

CGAIDS Group

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