Scarred by mines
By Hu Yongqi | China Daily | Updated: 2010-02-08 07:41
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Chen Liping helps her father Chen Dejin, who suffers black lung, with his respirator. The 50-year-old man was among 304 farmers from the isolated Gulang county in Gansu province diagnosed with the occupational disease after working for several years in gold mines. Few wore protective masks. |
As poor farmers battle with black lung after years in gold mines, experts call for authorities to improve checks to protect workers in hazardous conditions. Hu Yongqi reports from Gansu
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