Statistics from the Việt Nam – Germany Hospital showed that the hospital received 1,138 patients due to workplace accidents in the first six months of this year.- Photo infonet.vn HÀ NỘI – A builder was taken to the Emergency Department of Việt Nam – Germany Friendship Hospital last Tuesday in a critical condition after receiving an electronic shock while at work. The man had sustained severe burns to over half of his body. Bùi Minh Bình, of Thái Bình Province, took the builder to hospital. He said he had only just met the man a day earlier when they worked together on a construction site in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District. Bình said he had moved from his hometown to Hà Nội to earn a living, Nhân Dân Cuối Tuần (The People Weekend) magazine reported. He sometimes worked as a builder and other times as a porter. Bình would take on almost any work as long as it was legal. “I just thought of going to the capital to earn a living, I never considered the dangers I could face working here,” Bình said. Bình admitted he worked at the construction site without protective equipment. Not only Bình and the builder who was electrocuted, but many labourers nationwide are in the same situation. They work without protective equipment and are liable to suffer a workplace accident at any time. For example, four workers were killed and three others injured in June 2016, in the central province of Nghệ An’s Hạ… [Read full story]
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