Gyeonggi Office of Education Provides 'Lung Cancer Screening' for Over 13,000 School Meal Workers

Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education building exterior

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education will conduct lung cancer health screenings to prevent occupational cancer among school meal workers.

On the 23rd, the Gyeonggi Office of Education announced that it will provide free lung cancer screenings for a total of 13,063 public and private school nutrition teachers, nutritionists, cooks, and kitchen assistants who have more than 5 years of experience or are aged 55 or older, expanding the screening target criteria set by the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

Earlier, in February last year, the Ministry of Employment and Labor established health screening criteria for school meal workers with more than 10 years of experience or aged 55 or older, following the first recognition of lung cancer among school meal workers in the province as an occupational disease.

Along with relaxing the screening target criteria, the Gyeonggi Office of Education added 76 institutions capable of lung cancer screening to the 47 national screening institutions recommended by the Ministry of Employment and Labor to facilitate the screening process.

Those wishing to undergo health screening can individually visit screening institutions from November this year to February next year to receive low-dose chest CT scans.

Yoon Tae-ho, head of the School Meal Cooperation Division at the Provincial Office of Education, emphasized, "We will continue to make efforts to ensure that school meal workers can work in a healthy and safe environment through this health screening."

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