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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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Govt to provide relief to families of victims of silicosis

by | Aug 8, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

Jharkhand National Human Rights Commission has recommended Jharkhand Government to pay Rs 4 lakh each to the next of kin of 24 deceased workers who contracted silicosis due to inaction of the enforcement agencies of the state government. The Commission has asked...

जांच रिपोर्ट गलत या जांचकर्ता!

by | Jul 26, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

जोधपुर मे के. एन. चेस्ट अस्पताल का एक मामला सामने आया है। जिसमे अस्पताल के डॉक्टर भी कन्फूज है कि मरीज को सिलिकोसिस की बीमारी है या फिर कुछ और बीमारी है। पहले तो डाक्टरों ने चेक किया तो पाया कि सिलिकोसिस नाम की बीमारी है। परंतु कुछ महीने बाद दोबारा बोर्ड की टीम ने चेक...

New advisory to end ‘inspector raj’

by | Jul 9, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

NEW DELHI: To usher in greater ease of doing business, the government has taken steps to rein in the notorious "inspector raj". In an advisory to all ministries which is aimed to check fishing expeditions by inspectors, the department of industrial policy and...

All 14 mine workers diagnosed positive of silicosis

by | Jul 7, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

JAIPUR: The worst case of silicosis was uncovered when 14 out of 14 mine workers, who had been for a medical examination in Kota, were confirmed positive. The average age of these mine workers is 48 years. The figure is the highest percentage of confirmed cases of...