Workers offered free health exams

GUANGZHOU: The South China city of Guangzhou will oversee the expenditure of 3.5 million yuan for free physical examinations for 10,000 migrant workers in the remaining months of this year.

The exams will be offered to those who work in industries vulnerable to occupational diseases and to those who have participated in the city's work-related injury insurance program.

"As a co-operative program with the United Nations Development Program, we have chosen Baiyun as a pilot district. Some 10,000 migrant workers there will get free overall physical examinations as well as physical examinations for some of the specific items that relate to the risky industries where they work," said Zheng Yuhua, deputy director of the municipal labor and social security bureau of Guangzhou.