Pneumoconiosis ranks first in occupational diseases in Nanjing

“Doctor, I have been engaged in steel cutting on the construction site. In recent months, even if I have not worked, my ears have been buzzing...” Yesterday morning, Liu Daben from Huai'an rushed to the Andemen labour market. City occupational disease prevention and treatment clinic staff asked questions. The person in charge of the hospital told the reporter that pneumoconiosis and occupational chemical poisoning are two common occupational diseases in the city. With the increase of urban noise pollution, the incidence of occupational ENT disease has also increased significantly.

According to reports, occupational diseases refer to diseases caused by exposure of workers, institutions, and individual economic organizations to occupational activities due to exposure to dust, radioactive substances, and other toxic and hazardous substances. With the rapid economic and social development of our country, the hazard factors are more diverse and complex. At the end of last year, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and related departments adjusted the Occupational Diseases List and still classified occupational diseases into 10 categories. Adjustments have increased 18 kinds of diseases, and AIDS is one of them, but it is limited to medical and health personnel and the People's Police. Top 10 occupational diseases include: pneumoconiosis, occupational radiation diseases, accidental occupations, occupational diseases caused by physical factors, occupational diseases caused by biological factors, occupational skin diseases, occupational eye diseases, occupational ENT diseases, occupational tumors and other diseases Occupational diseases.

Yesterday, the reporter saw on the scene, many computer owners rushed to the scene to consult yesterday, “long-term sitting in front of the computer fell a serious cervical spondylosis, this occupational disease it?” For this question of Chen Ying, Pang Yan said that the cervical spine Disease is not in the catalog of occupational diseases. It can only be referred to as occupation-related or occupational-disease, and it is not an occupational disease.

“The incidence of pneumoconiosis still ranks high in the occupational disease epidemic in our city. Nearly 30 cases were diagnosed last year, an increase of about 10 cases compared with the previous year; followed by occupational chemical poisoning.” Pang Yan, director of the Medical Service Department of the Municipal Vocational and Technical Hospital, told reporters that the disease population Most of the front-line workers in the building materials, non-ferrous metals, and mechanical processing industries, “In the questionnaire survey, we found that they are not only not aware of the occupational hazards that may exist at work, but also the importance of 'occupational protection' in the production process. Also know enough."

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