📌El fondo de compensación para víctimas del amianto que “se queda corto”
https://carabanchel.net/el-fondo-de-compensacion-para-victimas-del-amianto-que-se-queda-corto/
#Carabanchel #Madrid #asbestosis #fondodecompensación #mesotelioma #talidomida #amianto

Anyone want to beta #read a #shortstory and check my clinical presentation of #asbestosis?

My Dad suffered terribly from #asbestosis (not silicosis) in his final years, more than 40 years after he ceased installing telephone PABX systems in asbestos-riddled office buildings & factories. It took decades for the symptoms to appear, and they were debilitating.

I used to help him shop every week & it would take him about an hour to walk the ~200 metres from Coles at Warringah Mall to the bus interchange, as he would have to stop every 10 or 15 metres & rest for a few minutes to catch his breath. If #silicosis is anything like asbestosis, Australia needs to ban the use of artificial stone (mainly used for kitchen benchtops) ASAP.

"For the last 60 years, silicosis was very rare in Australia. Due to the increased use of artificial stone, we are now seeing a re-emergence of this terrible disease."

Banning artificial stone could prevent 100 lung cancers and 1,000 cases of silicosis, where dust scars the lungs https://theconversation.com/banning-artificial-stone-could-prevent-100-lung-cancers-and-1-000-cases-of-silicosis-where-dust-scars-the-lungs-182420