Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen | Publication date 02 February 2018 | 08:31 ICT
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Victims are carried to an ambulance after a mass fainting at a Takeo province factory this week. Photo supplied
More than 180 garment workers have fainted over the course of three days at a Chinese factory in Takeo province’s Bati district.
A manager at the Seduno (Cambo) Knitting factory, who declined to give his name, said workers were sickened by the smell of pesticide being sprayed at a nearby rice field on Tuesday. However, workers continued to faint yesterday even though the fumes had dissipated.
“I’m not sure whether it’s because of health problems or because one by one they got scared,” he said.
She also said conditions at the factory were stressful, with employees often pressured into working overtime.
“We work seven days a week, and Monday through Friday we work from 7am to 8pm,” Rin said.
The phenomenon of mass fainting in Cambodia is still not well understood. Labour advocates have attributed the cause to poor working conditions, while some believe the faintings are psychogenic events.
1 comment:
Why the garment workers keep fainting, hundreds here, a dozen there? Every years, there has been thousands of garment workers fainting. Do you think the Vietnamese attack there workers in secret? Or you think Hun Sen attacks them for fun. Or perhaps someone is attacking them to make Hun Sen to look bad?
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