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Occupational hazards in healthcare settings - A study of invisibilised frontline workers in Bengaluru

By: Karpagam, Sylvia and Dsouza, Jerald.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Economic & Political Weekly Description: 56(17), Apr 24, 2021: p.60-65.Subject(s): Occupational hazards, Healthcare settings,Frontline workers, Bengaluru In: Economic & Political WeeklySummary: This paper highlights the working conditions in two work chains in the public healthcare system: municipal solid-waste management and handling of hospital waste and dead bodies. While COVID-19 has exposed the hazards that workers in these sectors are exposed to, it also lays bare the historical and social hierarchies, the exploitative working conditions and intrinsic discrimination within the public healthcare system. – Reproduced
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This paper highlights the working conditions in two work chains in the public healthcare system: municipal solid-waste management and handling of hospital waste and dead bodies. While COVID-19 has exposed the hazards that workers in these sectors are exposed to, it also lays bare the historical and social hierarchies, the exploitative working conditions and intrinsic discrimination within the public healthcare system. – Reproduced

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