L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 867
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*** Medical Aid at Coal Mine Workers Camps**
- prof. N. G. Ranga : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member be pleased to say if” there is any provision for rendering medical aid to the coal mine workers at their camps ?
(b) If so, has any schedule been drawn up for maintaining any minimum stock of medicines and surgical instruments at such camps ? What is the number of medical staff and their qualifications ?
(c) Is, there any arrangement for the treatment of venereal diseases, at these camps ?
(d) Is any record maintained of the incidence of sickness ?
(e) If so, what is the total number of cases of malaria and venereal diseases from the beginning of these establishments of the labour camps up to the 31st December, 1944 ?
(f) Is there any arrangement for periodical medical examination of the workers ?
(g) If so, what are the diseases most prevalent which these examinations show and their percentage ?
(h) Have any deaths taken place ? If so, how many and due to what reasons ?
(i) Is there any supervision machinery for the Medical Department of the Camp ? Does the local Civil Surgeon visit the camps and treat serious cases ? Are serious cases taken to Civil Hospitals ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
(b) An adequate stock of medical supplies and surgical instruments are kept at each camp. One graduate in medicine is in charge of each camp with more than 1,000 labourers ; while one licentiate in medicine is in charge of each camp with less than 1,000 labourers.
(c) Yes.
(d) Yes.
(e) The camps, are spread over a large area and it has therefore not been possible to collect the information in the time available.
(f) Yes.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II of 1945, 28th February 1945, p. 819.