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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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मजदूरों के लिए स्वस्थ्य शिविर संपन्न

by | May 29, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

पन्ना ज़िले के सुदूर जंगल मे स्थित ग्राम बिलदवार ग्राम पंचायत कर्णा और हड़ा ग्राम पंचायत जनपद पवई मे जहां पत्थर खदानों मे काम करने वाले मजदूरों के लिए पत्थर खदान मजदूर संघ, श्रम शक्ति महिला सेवा संस्थान और वन विभाग के संयुक्त प्रयास से स्वास्थ्य परीक्षण शिविर का आयोजन...

Rajasthan model to compensate ailing miners

by | May 23, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

JAIPUR: Call it a mere coincidence or another feather in the state's cap, but Rajasthan, one of the states plagued most by mining, has quietly thrown up a unique model to compensate mine workers afflicted with silicosis and other life threatening diseases. This comes...

Award for Latin American Activist: Fernanda Giannasi

by | May 16, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

by Laurie Kazan-Allen On May 7, 2014 at a prestigious ceremony in an iconic Brazilian museum in São Paulo, the work of veteran ban asbestos activist and former labor inspector Fernanda Giannasi was publicly commemorated when she was presented with an award for...

Ratify ILO Convention on safety & health

by | May 10, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

Government has been asked to sign onto the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention (155) to ensure effective occupational health and safety in and around workplaces.“The Factory, Shop and Office Act currently in operation in Ghana limits the Factories...