CAMBODIA: Mass faintings reported at another garment plant

Garment workers in Cambodia have fallen ill in a further report of mass fainting in the country.

Around 250 female workers at King Fashion factory in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh fainted this week, because of bad working conditions, according to Chea Mony, president of Free Trade Union.

Mony said about 150 workers fainted on Wednesday, and that the number could rise as some workers were transported to hospital by family and friends.

This was followed by another mass fainting of 100 people on Thursday morning, Born Sam Ath, a local police official, told the local media.

The workers suspected that chemical odours from cotton and bad quality water they drank in the factory were to blame.

King Fashion Garment Co, a Taiwanese-owned dress manufacturer, was unavailable to comment when contacted by just-style.

It is a different manufacturer to Heuy Chuen (Cambodia) Corp, which reported a mass fainting of 101 workers making footwear for sportswear firm Puma in April. A subsequent investigation by Puma diagnosed hypoglycaemia, a medical term for lower than normal levels of blood glucose.