Bushco hates 9/11 Responders
- From: "A Brick in the Wall" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:17:07 -0500
WASHINGTON - A program supposed to monitor the health of thousands of
federal workers who answered the call of 9/11 has been lost for more than
two years, the Daily News has learned. "We seem to have inherited our own
Loch Ness monster in terms of being able to find this monitoring," said Jon
Adler, vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers' Association.
Programs were developed to check on the health of every other group that
rushed to Ground Zero during and after the Sept. 11 attacks, primarily the
World Trade Center Medical Screening Program run by the Mount Sinai Medical
Center. Officials involved told The News the feds barred their workers from
that program because they were setting up their own.
Unfortunately, that program vanished during the bureaucratic shuffle
creating the Department of Homeland Security.
After trying for months to find out what happened, Manhattan Rep. Carolyn
Maloney's office was able to uncover only that a branch of the Department of
Health and Human Services got $3.7 million for the work. But it started and
stopped in 2003, seeing fewer than 600 people.
"I was told there was a 'lull,'" said Maloney, who fired off a letter to HHS
yesterday seeking explanations. "This is unacceptable, these men and women
are certainly not experiencing a lull in the health effects they are
suffering from exposure to toxins at Ground Zero."
An HHS spokesman insisted the program had not been lost, but that screeners
with the Federal Occupational Health Service ran into more problems than
they expected.
"It was put on a temporary hold while we have been fixing those problems,"
said Bill Hall, an HHS spokesman. He could not explain the problems or why
monitoring stopped for more than two years. He said it would resume soon
with workers who signed up originally.
But of nearly a dozen federal law enforcers contacted by The News, only one
said he ever got a chance to ask for monitoring.
"We're not asking for anything crazy," said an investigator who wants to
sign up. "We just want someone to take a look at us in case, God forbid, 20
years down the line we start getting some strange kinds of cancer from
everything we were exposed to down there."
Originally published on August 26, 2005
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/340738p-290928c.html
They can't even boil water with outside help --- the professionals are in
town --- what a load of crap that one is.
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