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Surgical Medicine Open Access Journal

Heart Risk Assessment for Mining Workers in Papua New Guinea. Summary Paper for Heart Assessment and Stratification

  • Open or CloseArnold Waine*

    Division of Surgery, Papua New Guinea

    *Corresponding author:Arnold Waine, Division of Surgery, Papua New Guinea

Submission: February 24, 2020;Published: August 18, 2020

DOI: 10.31031/SMOAJ.2020.03.000568

ISSN : 2578-0379
Volume3 Issue4

Abstract

Papua New Guinea has about seven active mining and exploration activities for minerals like gold, copper, and other minor minerals. Each is managed by different company and together employs about ten thousand workers. A fifth of this would be foreign workers. Most of the Mine workers that are screened at the Employees Health and Wellness clinics tend to have similar compounding health risks.

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