Module 4: Lecture: Workers Compensation Legislation - Exercises. |
You are employed as the occupational medical practitioner for a large chemical factory in the industrial sector of Cape Town. One of the new employees, 48 years old, come to see you with a chronic cough. After clinical evaluation and certain investigations you make a definitive diagnosis of pulmonary TB. Is compensation one of the avenues you will explore?
In going deeper into his occupational history you ascertain that he worked underground in a gold mine for 8 years and left his previous workplace 11 months ago. Besides organising appropriate treatment for the pulmonary TB, how will you proceed with further management?
What advice will you give to the employee in the above case?
What advice will you give to the employer in the above case?
After 6 months of therapy for TB he is much improved and sputum negative but complains that he gets short of breath when he walks upstairs or doing heavy manual labour. A chest X-ray indicates post - tuberculous scarring. How will you deal with the problem?
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