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The number of fatal accidents at the workplace in 2018 grew by 5.4 percent, and 350 people were fatally injured last year compared with 332 in 2017, the press service of the Social Insurance Fund of Ukraine has reported.

At the same time, the number of accidents and occupational diseases in 2018 decreased. In total, the fund registered 4,805 accidents and 1,879 occupational diseases, which is 3.2 percent and 3.7 percent less than in 2017, respectively.

The Social Insurance Fund makes insurance payments to victims of accidents at work or in the event of an occupational disease, and also provides medical and social services. In particular, the fund finances the treatment of all the direct consequences of an insured event until recovery, operational rehabilitation on the basis of sanatoriums, conducting research, performing surgeries, endoprosthetics, prosthetics, and providing medicines and medical products.