Article taken from a Xinhua report on 9 April 2003
A health insurance service for medical workers who risk infection with the HIV virus has been launched by New China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. in Mudanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
The New Life China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. stated on 9 April that a medical worker, who would pay 400 yuan for the insurance service, will reportedly receive 10,000 yuan from the company if they are infected with HIV at work.
The insurance service which reportedly started on 8 April, claims to be the first covering HIV/AIDS in China.
Xinhua reported that China was estimated to have more than one million HIV carriers by the end of 2002, a figure which increases by more than 30 per cent annually, according to the Ministry of Health.
Source: Xinhua news agency, 9 April 2003
A health insurance service for medical workers who risk infection with the HIV virus has been launched by New China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. in Mudanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
The New Life China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. stated on 9 April that a medical worker, who would pay 400 yuan for the insurance service, will reportedly receive 10,000 yuan from the company if they are infected with HIV at work.
The insurance service which reportedly started on 8 April, claims to be the first covering HIV/AIDS in China.
Xinhua reported that China was estimated to have more than one million HIV carriers by the end of 2002, a figure which increases by more than 30 per cent annually, according to the Ministry of Health.
Source: Xinhua news agency, 9 April 2003
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