KUALA LUMPUR: For three decades a host of occupational-related diseases that caused impairments and disabilities have gone unreported and uncompensated because the Social Security Organisation (Socso) did not list or classify them as occupational hazards.
The priority then was to provide coverage to workers who lost their eyes, ears, limbs and other parts of the anatomy in industrial and commuting accidents.
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