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Can affect the health status of day laborers
Municipal Health Committee form, intended to prevent children in the plots
Tiznado Carolina
18-02-2011
ESCUINAPA._ is urgent to address the conditions and needs of farm workers and to avoid the presence of minors in the area, said citizens who formed the Municipal Health Committee.
Besides the problem of having children in the fields or at home, as there are children aged between 4 or 8 years caring for other children, is also the public health situation.
"Day laborers are in homes that are overcrowded, small rooms have no bathrooms, this can lead to health problems, have outbreaks of gastroenteritis and cholera because of the lack of hygiene," said one of the doctors present at the meeting.
According to the statement made by residents of Isla del Bosque said, many day laborers defecate in the open, causing this ill health.
There are several points which have to work hard, he said, the main being a place for child care, avoid carrying children to pay, call for improved housing or spaces that are leased to agricultural workers to avoid health problems.
"We have many young workers with problems of bronchitis and pneumonia, a lot has to do with the housing conditions they have," said General Hospital.
"We need to take prompt action to improve the situation of agricultural workers and children who are exposed to accidents," said another of the doctors.
He said that in the case of children in the countryside can bring cases like the one on Friday 11 February, when two children under 4 and 2 years of age were run over when being in an agricultural field.
The children were moved to Mazatlan to a private clinic, where he apparently already stable, he said.
"The accidents to which children are exposed not only pedestrians but cuts, animal bites or pesticide poisoning," he said....