India’s poor do not have easy access to health care subsidies, and India is among the top five worst countries in terms of what they offer as poor health subsidies in the public sector. Each year, thousands of new formulations are seen in the pesticide and fertilizer sectors, with over a million synthetic chemicals being used in these products to increase food grain production, which later leading to illnesses in children.
They work an average of 10 hours a day, and some at night and suffer from various skin diseases and infections.
Most of the rural Indian mothers already suffer from anemia and malnutrition, and the growth of children and fetuses is also impaired by exposure to chemicals, pesticides, and environmental contaminants.
In the silk industry, the child workers are frequently scalded, burned, or blistered from having to dip silk threads into boiling water, they cut their hands and fingers on the threads, they are exposed to the risk of infection from handling the dead silk worms, and they also breathe in machine-generated toxic fumes and smoke that cause lung and other infectious diseases.
The emotional and psychological toll on these children is equally distressing. They are separated from their families, and the normal process of childhood development is truncated.
Occupational Safety and Health Law,
The nonunionized and unorganized working sector in India, though it represents the bulk of the country’s workforce (90.6%), suffers from lack of health and safety regulations because OHS is not seen as a priority.
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