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Miners welcome plans to set up specialist clinics
MINERS have welcomed Labour’s plans to set up specialist clinics to ease the plight of retired pit workers suffering from lung disease.
The policy was announced in Treeton, South Yorkshire, today by shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, who met former miners to discuss plans to open health facilities in mining communities.
When employed, miners were provided with health services such as regular lung checks by the National Coal Board, but with the closure of the mines this provision vanished.
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