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Miners seek compensation for lung disease
TWO dozen farmers in southwest China's Yunnan Province are seeking compensation from their former employers for the fatal occupational lung disease they linked to their former mining work.
The county government is giving them free medical treatment and assisting their bid. But officials told today's Yunnan Information newspaper that it is difficult to find the employers because the workers had not signed any labor contracts.
The government of Zhaotong City's Yanjin County organized a medical check-up for local farmers after several suggested last September they may have contracted pneumoconiosis, a disease caused by inhaling dust, after work in a gold mine in northern China's Shanxi Province about 10 years ago.
It indicated 24 out of the 40 miners turned farmers had contracted the lung disease. Two died in the following months. The other 22 are being treated at hospitals with all fees covered by the government.
But the treatment is to slow the disease, because there is no cure, according to Wang Zhengbin, director of Yanjin Health Bureau.
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