Salt Workers Afflicted with Skin, Eye Ailments in Nagai Dt: Study

CHENNAI: A high prevalence of various occupation-related ailments was found by a study undertaken by a team from JIPMER in partnership with MSSRF among salt workers of Vedaranyam. The findings included a high prevalence of eye infections associated with exposure to the sun and UV rays, several times higher than general population prevalence, besides other occupation-related ailments