Diseases alert of garment workers
Saturday,
02/12/2023,
09:18(GMT +7)
In recent years, Vietnam’s garment industry has had remarkable growth rate of about 20 percent per year with export accounted for 15% of national exports. The impressive growth of the garment industry has contributed to help Vietnam become one of nine largest garment exporting countries in the 153 exporters of textiles and garment worldwide.
Up to now, the number of garment workers in Vietnam is around two million people. However, disease situation of these garment workers has been alarming particularly in the South. The main reasons were: overtime working, stress, lack of useful playground…that made 93% of the workers tired after work.
According to statistics of The Hospital of Nurses-Rehabilitation- Occupational diseases in HCM city, among 1,700 outpatient examinations nearly 1,000 cases of mental, joint-muscle-skeleton, cervical spondylosis, backbone spondylosis; 50% of patients were manual workers.
Survey of Institute of Hygiene and Public Health of HCM city on 1,000 garment workers aged from 25-35, in 3 enterprises in Binh Duong, Dong Nai provinces and Ho Chi Minh city showed that 93% of workers felt tired after work of which whole body fatigue holds 47%; heavy head, headache holds 16.7% ; being exhausted holds 15.1%; joint- muscle- skeleton pain in lower back, neck and shoulders holds over 80%, etc.
In the fact, rate of workers doing monotonous works being tired is higher than workers doing diverse works. Direct workers such as: fixed sitting or in industrial lines are usually more tired than indirect workers as technical staffs or managers. Monotonous work easily causes stress, sad feelings, loss of concentration, etc that make them more suffered work-related diseases.
Garment workers must expose to and inhale variety of jute, hemp, cotton fibers…in the manufacturing process so they have highly risk of lung diseases. Clinical symptoms of lung diseases caused by inhaling jute, hemp, cotton fibers are thoracic tightness, shortness of breath and cough.
Although many workers were suffered from occupational diseases and there were regulations requiring enterprises to organize periodical health examination for workers at least once per year, to detect symptoms of occupational diseases, the enterprises have not really paid attention on working environment and occupational safety and health and do not comply with these regulations.
According to statistics of The Hospital of Nurses-Rehabilitation- Occupational diseases in HCM city, among 1,700 outpatient examinations nearly 1,000 cases of mental, joint-muscle-skeleton, cervical spondylosis, backbone spondylosis; 50% of patients were manual workers.
Survey of Institute of Hygiene and Public Health of HCM city on 1,000 garment workers aged from 25-35, in 3 enterprises in Binh Duong, Dong Nai provinces and Ho Chi Minh city showed that 93% of workers felt tired after work of which whole body fatigue holds 47%; heavy head, headache holds 16.7% ; being exhausted holds 15.1%; joint- muscle- skeleton pain in lower back, neck and shoulders holds over 80%, etc.
In the fact, rate of workers doing monotonous works being tired is higher than workers doing diverse works. Direct workers such as: fixed sitting or in industrial lines are usually more tired than indirect workers as technical staffs or managers. Monotonous work easily causes stress, sad feelings, loss of concentration, etc that make them more suffered work-related diseases.
Garment workers must expose to and inhale variety of jute, hemp, cotton fibers…in the manufacturing process so they have highly risk of lung diseases. Clinical symptoms of lung diseases caused by inhaling jute, hemp, cotton fibers are thoracic tightness, shortness of breath and cough.
Although many workers were suffered from occupational diseases and there were regulations requiring enterprises to organize periodical health examination for workers at least once per year, to detect symptoms of occupational diseases, the enterprises have not really paid attention on working environment and occupational safety and health and do not comply with these regulations.
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