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15 Sep 2015

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SAnews (So. Africa)

So. Africa: Mineworkers soon to have access to one-stop health, labour advice centre

'One stop health centre for miners', 15 Sep 2015: Mineworkers will soon have access to health and labour services at a One Stop Health Service Centre which will be built in Limpopo. Services offered…will include screening for silicosis, TB or any occupational lung disease. The centre, which will cater for current and former mineworkers, will also treat workers and [provide] rehabilitat[ion]…[services]...[V]arious labour law related advice services [will also be offered]…include[ing]…maternity and paternal benefits managed by the UIF [unemployment insurance fund], compensation in relation to the Injuries and Disease Act (COIDA), benefits managed by the Compensation Fund (CF) of the Department of Labour, as well as compensation benefits under the Compensation Fund of the Department of Health…Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources, Godfrey Oliphant, Deputy Ministers of Health Dr Joe Phaahla and Deputy Minister of Labour, iNkosi Phathekile Holomisa…joined hands in a sod-turning ceremony…