AHMEDABAD, India: Gripping his inhaler as he struggles to breathe, rake-thin Chinnapan Chinnakannu blames his years spent laboring in one of India’s scores of asbestos cement factories for his debilitating illness.
When he first started at the factory in western Gujarat state, Chinnapan said he was given protective clothing “but later they stopped providing us with masks and shoes”.
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