Recently, a truck driver in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, was urgently hospitalized for treatment due to severe overweight and difficulty breathing. It is understood that the driver's long-term irregular work and rest, coupled with excessive eating, soared to 153 kilograms. Due to obesity, he often wakes up in sleep due to poor breathing. In addition, every 500 meters you walk, you will feel unbearable pain in your lower back.
Sedentary, not exercising, staying up late for a long time, overwork, irregular diet, never having a physical examination, and even many drivers have not bought medical insurance.... Truck drivers are constantly exposed to a high-risk, labor-intensive work environment, and their physical and mental health is severely challenged.
The doctor diagnosed the master with severe sleep apnea syndrome as well as severe nocturnal hypoxemia. Under normal circumstances, a person's oxygen saturation should be between 95 and 100, but his minimum oxygen saturation at night is only 20, which is an extremely high risk of sudden death.
Drivers overloading are the most dangerous signs
According to the survey data, 76.21% of drivers work an average of 8 hours or more a day, and even 28.45% of drivers work an average of more than 12 hours a day. In order to increase their income, most drivers will take the initiative to extend their working hours and increase their labor intensity.
In addition, the phenomenon of evicting drivers in service areas also exists
Leaving early and returning late, overloaded for a long time, cardholders still can't get enough rest. Previously, in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, a truck driver drove into the service area late at night to rest, and was driven away by the staff and said that "he could only rest for half an hour".
The driver retorted: "What is the use of me for half an hour, if I can't drive away, where do you let me drive." The staff only said: "I don't care, I can rest for half an hour, or I will drive to the next station." ”
Sudden deaths of truck drivers are frequent, and everyone must be vigilant
Last year, the driver of a large truck with a license plate starting with Anhui K died in the Wanyuan North Service Area in Sichuan Province for several days, and the windows showed no signs of opening. The police found a large number of medicines in the cab, all of which were drugs for high blood pressure and diabetes.
In May of the same year, a truck driver about 30 years old was found dead in the driver's cab in the fruit market in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Drivers drive refrigerated trucks to pull fruits at the market all year round. It was found that the truck was blocking the way and needed to move the car, but no one could be found, and the person was dead when he was found.
Erping, a truck driver from Xingtai, Hebei Province, suffered a heart attack due to altitude sickness and left his life forever on the Qinghai-Tibet line. This is another Hebei cardholder who suspended his life on the Qinghai-Tibet line after the little gray gray of Hebei cardholders.
For a large group of truck drivers, incidents such as sudden death are not uncommon. Not only that, with the aging of truck drivers, the probability of sudden illness of drivers in the future will only increase.
For truck drivers, stress has become the norm. As a practitioner in the industry, Xiaoyi believes that truck drivers are also a vulnerable group and need more attention and love from the society. For truck drivers, Xiao Yi wants to say that the body is the capital of the revolution, if one or more symptoms appear for a long time, please pay attention to it, seek medical attention in time, and prevent and treat it as soon as possible.