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ensure the supply of adequate quantity of pure drinking water. Very few households (a little more than 10 per cent) use electricity even though there is no supply of electricity in the labor line. But the tea workers were very honest in reporting that in most cases they use electricity illegally. All workers reported that they use firewood for cooking. Living conditions do not vary significantly according to the sex of the workers and the category of the tea estate. As can be seen from Table 4.8 workers employed in the A category gardens have little better living conditions than those employed in the B and C category estates. Brick built housing facilities and electricity facilities are comparatively more in the A category estates.

Health Status of the Tea Plantation Workers

Incidence of Diseases and Treatment Pattern

Health and productivity of the workers are highly correlated. One of the main reasons for low productivity among tea workers is their very poor health. On an average, a female worker fell ill 3.1 times during the month prior to the interviews. Whereas a male worker fell ill 2 times during the same period. The frequency of suffering from fever (particularly malaria), diarrhea/dysentery/ stomach pain, physical weakness, eye pain and headache were found to be very high. They also suffer from certain chronic diseases like gastric and urinary tract infection, chest pain, etc. Tuberculosis was also found to be prevalent among them. It is, however, very encouraging that 95 per cent of the sick female workers and more than 83 per cent of sick the male workers took treatment for their illnesses. The tea garden management is responsible for providing the workers with all kinds of treatment facilities. Above Figure show that 79 per cent of the sick workers took treatment from the garden's doctor, hospital or clinic. But the workers were found to be unhappy with the quality of treatment provided by the garden authority. They reported that the same tablet is given for all types of fever. In most cases, there are no pathological facilities. They complained that the number of doctors and clinics are also very inadequate. Absence of female doctors in the clinics and hospitals is a great problem for the female workers.

However, the garden management thinks that they are providing adequate health facilities. They complained that in many cases the workers pretended to be sick to avail the paid sick leave. They said that it was observed that by taking sick leave the workers, particularly male workers, work elsewhere to earn some extra money. But our observation during field visits revealed that this complaint is not always true since some female workers (three workers) were found working even though they were suffering either from temperature or upset stomach. They told that they were not granted leave due to peak season of plucking. It can be seen that yearly per capita health expenditure of the Sterling Companies (which spend on workers' health far more than national companies) on workers is only Tk. 610. Health expenditure per month per worker has been estimated at around only Tk. 50, whereas a female garment worker's health expenditure per month is Tk.本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。