Tamil Nadu’s public healthcare steps in as workplace injuries expose insurance gap among migrant workers
Akash Kumar lay quietly on a hospital bed, his world turned upside down by a workplace accident involving a steel-cutting machine that had left him with a severe limb-threatening injury behind his left knee. At the Department of Vascular Surgery, Government Stanley Medical College Hospital (SMCH), at least four to five migrant workers involved in industrial and workplace accidents are treated for major vascular trauma every month. Losing a limb at 19 years will devastate his life and livelihood.
- ▪Akash Kumar lay quietly on a hospital bed, his world turned upside down by a workplace accident involving a steel-cutting machine that had left him with a severe limb-threatening injury behind his left knee.
- ▪At the Department of Vascular Surgery, Government Stanley Medical College Hospital (SMCH), at least four to five migrant workers involved in industrial and workplace accidents are treated for major vascular trauma every month.
- ▪Losing a limb at 19 years will devastate his life and livelihood.
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Akash Kumar lay quietly on a hospital bed, his world turned upside down by a workplace accident involving a steel-cutting machine that had left him with a severe limb-threatening injury behind his left knee. With no family by his side, the 19-year-old from Bihar struggled to understand the flurry of conversations around him, held back by a language barrier in an unfamiliar place.Beyond the severity of his injury, his situation has brought into focus a less visible challenge faced by many migrant workers - the lack of adequate financial protection.For many migrant workers like him, Tamil Nadu’s public healthcare system has often become their only hope.
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