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Gyeongnam Office of Education Conducts Lung Health Checkups for Over 3,700 School Meal Workers

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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] The Gyeongnam Office of Education will conduct lung health checkups for meal service workers by the end of this year.

On the 12th, the Office of Education announced that the checkups are being promoted to confirm the occurrence of lung cancer among meal service workers and to prepare health protection measures.

The subjects are about 3,700 nutrition teachers, nutritionists, cooks, and kitchen assistants with more than 10 years of meal service experience or aged 55 or older, working at public and private schools and institutions.

Those who meet either the experience or age criteria can receive the checkup, but those with less than one year of experience working in the cafeteria are excluded.

The lung checkups will be conducted using low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) at 33 hospitals in Gyeongnam.

An education office official explained, “This method significantly reduces radiation exposure compared to regular CT scans,” adding, “It is used as a screening test to detect small nodules in obscured areas and to enable early detection of lung cancer.”

The Office of Education plans to use the lung checkup results as basic data to prevent industrial accidents related to lung cancer in cafeterias in the future, and will additionally support confirmatory tests for those suspected of having lung cancer based on the checkup results.

Kwon Sang-tae, General Manager of Safety, said, “We will do our best to prepare necessary follow-up measures based on the lung health checkup results so that meal service workers can work in a safer environment.”

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