Healthcare facilities for women RMG workers sought

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki yesterday sought healthcare facilities for women garments workers for increased productivity for the RMG sector, which earns the highest foreign currency for the country, reports BSS.
"More than 80 per cent RMG workers are female and most of them come from low income families and are illiterate but their competence have enabled the industry to compete with the world market," she told a conference on healthcare delivery system for RMG workers.
"If these workers remain healthy they can contribute more and therefore it is our moral and social responsibility to keep them healthy," she added.
Participants of the conference stressed the need for strengthening health facilities and creating proper awareness in RMG units to reduce risk of diseases saying their women workers in many cases were unwilling to go for health care services which is largely responsible for them to lag behind.
They said proper knowledge, inadequate treatment facility and service-providing agency and uncongenial working environment are responsible for health problems of the garment workers, particularly women.

Healthcare facilities for women RMG workers sought

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki yesterday sought healthcare facilities for women garments workers for increased productivity for the RMG sector, which earns the highest foreign currency for the country, reports BSS. More than 80 per cent RMG workers are female and most of them come from low income families and are illiterate but their competence have enabled the industry to compete with the world market, she told a conference on healthcare delivery system for RMG workers. If these workers remain healthy they can contribute more and therefore it is our moral and social responsibility to keep them healthy, she added. Participants of the conference stressed the need for strengthening health facilities and creating proper awareness in RMG units to reduce risk of diseases saying their women workers in many cases were unwilling to go for health care services which is largely responsible for them to lag behind. They said proper knowledge, inadequate treatment facility and service-providing agency and uncongenial working environment are responsible for health problems of the garment workers, particularly women.