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Silicosis a Rare but Potentially Harmful Disease

KENTUCKY (10/27/16) — In recent decades, much has been done to improve workplace safety. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration instituted one such effort by requiring protective equipment to be used in the workplace. That resolution aimed to limit silica...
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Give us Rs 4 lakh while alive: Silicosis patients

JAIPUR: A group of silicosis patients will sit on indefinite dharna outside the office of the Jodhpur district collector from Friday. The patients are seeking that the government release compensation money in time, since they suffer a disease that cannot be cured....
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Jodhpur silicosis patients assured compensation in 10 days

JAIPUR: Patients with silicosis, whose compensation money had still not been released, on Friday met district collector Bishnu Mallick of Jodhpur. "We had decided to sit on an indefinite dharna, but the collector assured us today that the money would be released in a...
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43 silicosis patients to get compensation soon

JAIPUR: Silicosis patients were accompanied by social activists as they met district collector Tina Kumar at Badnor panchayat in Bhilwara district on Friday. Earlier, 103 people who had received certificates from the Pneumoconiosis Board showing that they had...
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सिलिकोसिस की जांच के लिए सक्रिय हुआ महकमा

सिलिकोसिस को लेकर स्वास्थ्य महकमा अब नींद से जागते हुए प्रभावित ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में स्वास्थ्य शिविर लगाकर स्वास्थ्य कैम्प लगाने की रणनीति तैयार की गई है। समाचार प्रकाशित करने के बाद मेडिकल कॉलेज डीन की उपस्थिति में स्वास्थ्य महकमा की गत दिवस एक बैठक आहूत कर प्रभावित...
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MP: NGOs welcome SC order for relief to silicosis victims

by | May 7, 2016 | News | 0 Comments

Three non-government organisations working for the cause of silicosis-affected people have welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision asking the Gujarat government to pay Rs 3 lakh compensation each to victims and their families in Madhya Pradesh. The Supreme Court on...

Dusty mining conditions trap Indian workers with deadly lung disease

by | Apr 9, 2016 | News | 0 Comments

JUDY WOODRUFF: Yesterday, special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro brought us a report on how big city street vendors are being left behind in India’s booming economy. Today, we travel to stone quarries in the rural northern part of the country, where a deadly disease...

जांच प्रशिक्षण शिविर का आयोजन

by | Apr 5, 2016 | News | 0 Comments

सिरोही| राष्ट्रीयक्षय नियंत्रण कार्यक्रम के तहत आबूरोड में एक दिवसीय सिलिकोसिस जांच प्रशिक्षण कार्यशाला आयोजित की गई। केंद्र प्रभारी के अनुसार पिंडवाड़ा आबूरोड ब्लॉक में पत्थर घढाई तराशने का काम करने वाले खान एवं निर्माण श्रमिकों की पिछले 4 महिने में की गई जांच के...

New Rules Aim to Reduce Silica Exposure at Work Sites

by | Mar 25, 2016 | News | 0 Comments

The Labor Department plans to announce on Thursday new rules that sharply reduce workplace exposure to silica, a potentially deadly mineral found in materials commonly used in construction and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Safety experts have urged a tightening...