“The daily workers are working in Teknaf land port with low wages and no medical facility inside port. The port authority is using daily workers for any accident insurance while working on the timbers. The timbers are heavy and frequently occur accident which made the workers injured.
The insurance was not qualifed for daily workers.”
The
daily workers went to Teknaf land port for loading timbers which are
being imported to Bangladesh from Burma, a daily worker, Hussain
said.
“During
loading into a truck on October 18, a big timber fell down on a daily
worker – Shamsul Alam (28), son of late Mohamed Alam- where no
worker able to hold the Timber and to save him. He was immediately
brought Teknaf Upazila Health Complex for treatment by workers, but
the doctor, Abdul Monan declared his death before arriving Health
Complex.”
The
daily worker was believed a refugee who lives in Lada unregistered
refugee camp.
“The
unregistered refugees frequently go to land port for working as they
don’t get any support from UNHCR and Bangladesh to support their
families, according to a local trader on condition of anonymity.
The
local also said that one or two die in Teknaf land port every year
during loading timbers because the authority of land port doesn’t
take care of workers.
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