Empowering Mineworkers: A Groundbreaking Guide to Health Rights

Empowering Mineworkers: A Groundbreaking Guide to Health Rights

The Minerals Council South Africa launched an innovative Ex-Mineworkers Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Guide in several languages to mark World TB Day.

The initiative, through the Masoyise Health Programme, will empower former mineworkers in the Southern African Development Community region with essential information on their health, entitlement to compensation benefits, and how to access support systems for occupational lung diseases contracted while laboring in South African mines.

Facilitating access to assistance and healthcare for former mineworkers is a mammoth undertaking. The handbook is a collaborative effort to provide them with the information they need to claim their rights and improve their well-being,” said the Minerals Council South Africa.

The 54-page guide, also translated in English, isiXhosa, Sesotho, and Portuguese, has important information on occupational diseases such as silicosis, TB, and chronic obstructive lung diseases. Medical rights, contact information of institutions such as Rand Mutual Assurance and Mineworkers Provident Fund, and explanatory steps by Tshiamiso Trust in support of claiming qualifying mineworkers or their beneficiaries for lung disease caused by work are explained in the guide.

For more details and to see the document, go visit minerals council’s website here.

The guide is a quantum leap for South Africa’s mining industry, offering hope and practical help to former mineworkers.

In addressing long-standing concerns, the guide not only improves individual life but ensures the industry’s commitment to workers’ well-being and justice.

To scores of mineworkers, it is a lifeline to help and support to which they are more than entitled.

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