About 50 workers at the M&V manufacturing factory in Kampong Chhnang province fainted yesterday morning due to overwork and exhaustion in the factory’s third fainting incident this year, officials said yesterday.
“They fainted because they had been working hard without rest,” Sam Ol said. “They work overtime and on their holidays they have to work in their rice fields.”
Hospital director Sorin Tiravuthy said that they were not in serious conditions, they just got tired and weak because of insufficient eating and overwork.
The garment industry is Cambodia's largest income earner. Currently, the sector consists of more than 300 factories, employing some 335,400 workers - 91 percent of them are female, according to the Commerce Ministry.
During the first six months of this year, the country exported garment and textile products in equivalent to 2.1 billion US dollars, up 9 percent if compared with the same period last year, the Commerce Ministry said.
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