Banana Plantation Workers Flee, Blame Pesticide Exposure After Three Deaths

[geovalin]

STUNG TRANG DISTRICT, Kampong Cham — Workers at a Kampong Cham banana plantation where three people died and 66 others were hospitalized in late October are fleeing to their home provinces, fearful that exposure to pesticides stored near their onsite dormitories is behind the deadly incident.

 

Before the mass hospitalizations, people regularly fainted and felt dizzy on the job but were told their symptoms were a sign of laziness, current and former workers told VOD.

 

Starting the week of October 25, about one-third of the 200-some workers at a Long Sreng International plantation known as “Plantation 35” began feeling dizzy, having trouble breathing and experiencing chest pain. Two people died while being transported to the hospital and another at the district hospital.

 

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[Mickeymaus]

Always wash your hands after holding bananas in your hands. The inside of the fruit does not appear to be as problematic in terms of pesticides.