Minister's AIDS workshop for legislators finds few takers

  • 21/04/1998

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

When a legislator asked during a half-an-hour discussion in the Maharashtra Assembly if you could get AIDS from mosquito bites, Health Minister Daulatrao Aher, a doctor, was appalled.So was the Chief Minister Manohar Joshi at the suggestion from another legislator that the police, patil and sarpanch in all villages of the State be authorised to arrest and incarcerate AIDS victims.It is a report on the AIDS workshop held at Mumbai.