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Editorial: pneumoconiosis behind what difficult breathing
People's daily
Only strong accountability and trapping system corrected in a timely manner, channel construction in order to get the most out of a justice to avoid repetition of the tragedy
Gulang County, hundreds of people suffer from pneumoconiosis in Gansu province, which already has a number of people were killed, but most lack evidence, activist efforts were in vain.
Healthy people may cannot experience, is pneumoconiosis Mongolian chest zhihou of difficult respiratory, is how of pain feel, but comb these dust lung disease patients encounters of various, has does not difficult feel to they of survival dilemma--wage earners Shi, dust concentration serious exceeded unmanned involved, only some one-time masks a with is several months, really poor; is employment Shi, most no signed labor contract, humiliation; left Shi, all refuge card, and contract, evidence are is boss search go, helpless; disease hair Hou, boss to no workers proved for excuses refused compensation, wishes to cry no tear; help Shi, about sector and to evidence insufficient of name does not to backing, even defence says "found does not to boss", finger-shirking responsibility; opinion angrily Shi, regardless of is is not do labor protection responsibility of mine main, also is lax regulatory of about administrative sector, are unmanned for this bear responsibility, let people sad.
Trouble has been brewing for freeze, nor a day injured patient's pneumoconiosis. A certain extent, it is a series of absence, and fall only leads to fleeing from poverty dream, finally evolved into a death and desolation of the race.
The thing is, this is by no means an isolated case, which does not contribute on behalf of a number of basic living conditions of workers. According to the relevant statistical data of the Ministry of health, 2009, no cure for pneumoconiosis, 79.96% per cent of total number of cases of occupational disease in the same year, is the largest number of patients with an occupational disease; and a significant majority of patients, appears in the small and medium enterprises. Because "the system is not perfect" activist difficult, and migrant workers in Henan province Zhang Haichao "chest lung inspection" has experienced a system failure. It is regrettable that, in this case will only eventually be treated as an extreme case, not by analogy.
This Gansu Gulang "system of pneumoconiosis" once again behind the attack, is the vulnerability of the employment system, the rights of ordinary laborers infirmity, there should be regulation null and void sth Issues the dignity of workers as well as here, there are economic sustainability dilemma can improve development and livelihood issues. Over the years, some places have excessive overdraft "demographic dividend" for "Chinese," "not not have to worry about hiring people" as an excuse to condone violations violations of unscrupulous businesses. The overdraft is immoral. Whether it be from the social and ethical, or from the angle of the dignity of labor, you will need to make up the block system "short" to improve the situation of workers.
According to reports, the Gulang local government have been low-provide each family with pneumoconiosis, and emergency relief fund set out to establish the implementation of relief, this is the minimum of effort. But on these issues, the relevant departments to do more than play the role of charities. Illegal labor, and violations construction, and escape responsibility of things is how occurs of, law enforcement is how slack of, Enterprise illegal cost is how reduced of, are has who the for these dust lung disease patients bear responsibility? only has strong asked responsibility, and on system timely corrected trap, to maximum degree to building a section justice channel, avoid tragedy of repeated; to for more legitimate rights and interests of was against of workers, more propped up a fresh respiratory of space.