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INTRODUCTION Black Death is an epidemic of bubonic plague, a sickness caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis that circulates with wild rodents where they live in great numbers and density. Black Death went in Europe by traveling with sea in Oct. 1347 when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. The IMO International Convention on for Seafarers (STCW), 1978, as amended, tell that every seafarers holding a certificate issued under the provisions of the Convention, who is working at sea, shall also have a valid medical certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of Regulation I/9 and of Section A-I/9 of the STCW Code. Seafarers should accept taking a medical training …show more content…

This has been an invaluable document for maritime authorities and other countries, the social partners in the shipping industry and the medical practitioners who conduct medical examinations of seafarers. Since 1997 there have been important changes in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of many of the medical conditions that need to be taken into account. The 1997 guidelines provides detailed information on the conduct of seafarers medical examinations but they did not, with the exception of vision, assist by proposing the appropriate criteria to be used when deciding whether a medical certificate could be issued for other …show more content…

Medical training of a seafarer helps them to know how to prevent diseases, cure fellow crew, save someone, and to protect your health. This is the things that maritime industry have implemented for the safe voyage of the seafarers. REFERENCE LIST: (2013) Guidelines on the medical examinations of seafarers. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE GENEVA .ILO. (2006) Republic of the Marshall Islands office of the maritime administrator. Guidance on Medical Exams and Certificates for Seafarers. (2014) Seafarer medical certificates. Retrieved from: https://www.gov.uk/seafarer-medical-certificates/overview. (1978).STCW Courses. http://www.ncmm.no/training-and-education/for-seafarers. (2006). the Maritime Labour Convention. A Seafarers Bill of Rights.Retrieved from: www.itfseafarers.org.. (1978). International Convention on Standardds of Training, Certificate Watchkeeping for Seafarers. Retrieved from:

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