Silica Exposed workplaces or Occupations

Clinical description

• The target populations are current miners, ex-miners, mining communities and

cement porters.

• Screening criteria / algorithms: Every miner, ex-miner or mining community member

presenting to the health facility should be screened for TB.

• Both symptomatic and X-ray screening methods will be used.
• Xpert should be used for testing presumptive TB cases wherever possible. Microscopy

can be used where Xpert is not available.

• Where necessary, lung function tests will be done at district hospital and health centre

level.

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