26 июня 200714:20
Cities don’t pay enough attention to workers’ health, Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government warns
Sverdlovsk Region Government considered a set of measures meant for improving the medical supervision of the region’s workers in 2004-2015. According to Health Minister Mikhail Sklyar, 311,316 people who operate in harmful and dangerous working conditions were examined last year; 2,044 people were diagnosed with professional illnesses. 8,844 people with different kinds of illnesses (including nearly 3,000 women) had to undergo regular checkups in health centers, with the patients being about 53 years old on average. At the end of the session, Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Viktor