“In this health examination, many sanitation workers were examined and diagnosed with different diseases. Among them, 11 sanitation workers of a clean team all suffered from diseases such as arthritis, frozen shoulder, and herniated discs. Eight people have breast hyperplasia.” On January 18, Chen Renlian, general manager of Dalian Wanshuntong Environmental Cleaning Co., Ltd., who had just received a formal health worker’s medical report form, told reporters that on January 10, the sanitation cleaning company organized a love medical examination. In the results of the physical examination conducted by the company’s 485 sanitation workers, more than 60% of sanitation workers had occupational diseases such as rheumatism, heart and lung, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Among them, patients suffering from rheumatism accounted for 40%, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases accounted for 20%, cardiopulmonary diseases accounted for 11%, and sanitation workers with complete health were less than 40%.

The medical examiner told the reporter that because of the relatively simple work of the sanitation workers, it is very easy for a single part of the body to exert a single force, leading to overload, it is prone to suffer from varicose veins, arthritis and other strains. In the process of physical examination for sanitation workers, the proportion of similar diseases accounts for about 65%. In addition to the above diseases, sanitation workers inhale a lot of dust and exhaust gas during their work, so the probability of heart and lung and respiratory diseases is also significantly higher than other types of work. The sanitation workers responsible for the removal of garbage are suffering from symptoms such as lumbar disc herniation due to poor shock absorption of garbage trucks. According to Dr. Cheng Chuihua, as sanitation workers work on the road all year round, their spirits are often in a state of intense stress at work, so many people have higher blood pressure. Mental stress coupled with fatigue, naturally became a high risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

“In the future, the company will gradually institutionalize the medical examination and provide such sanitation inspections for sanitation workers on a regular basis,” said Chen Renlian, manager of Wanshuntong Environmental Cleaning Co., Ltd. According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Sanitation Department, the sanitation worker's physical condition reflected by the sanitation worker's physical examination organised by Wanshuntong Company can be said to be a microcosm of the physical condition of the sanitation workers in the city. Therefore, it is urgent to pay attention to the occupational diseases of sanitation workers. It is understood that in recent years, the municipal government and all relevant departments have continued to increase capital investment, added machine sweeping, watering, high-pressure flushing, and other operating vehicles to increase the mechanization rate of urban sweeping maintenance, and continuously reduce the labor intensity of sanitation workers. In the future, we must also provide more complete protection of the occupational health system for first-line sanitation workers.

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