Olongapo City: The lawyer of a workers’ group in a Korean-owned shipyard in the Subic Bay Freeport has urged the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to compel the company’s officials to put up a hospital following another accident that killed one of its workers on January 23.
Lawyer Virgie Suarez Pinlac, counsel of the Samahan ng Manggagawa sa Hanjin, confirmed the death of Bonifacio Palarca, 26, a welder at the shipbuilding facility of the Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines.Pinlac said Hanjin’s medical clinic on its work site is not enough to deal with medical emergencies.“What they (workers) need is an on-site emergency hospital that has enough number of doctors that are available 24 hours a day,” she said.
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