Tenaganita: Improve working and living conditions

Squalid and unhealthy: A file picture of illegal worker accommodations, where foreigners ‘live, eat and work under overcrowded conditions’.

KUALA LUMPUR: The move to reintroduce annual health screenings for foreign workers is a good first step to tackle the spread of infectious diseases.

But it is not the sole answer as living and working conditions of these workers are bad and must be improved, said migrant rights NGO Tenaganita.