Are asbestos victims well cared for in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin?

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Is there enough radiologists at the Cotentin public hospital center?

In any case, this is what we are asking action groups of France Insoumise of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin who decided to alert Benoît Arrivé, Marie of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche) and Chairman of the Supervisory Board you CHPC, in an open letter.

The context

“In Cherbourg, asbestos is a health disasterof the thousands of employees were exhibited in our industrial basin to this killer fiber. It took almost a century to recognize and admit the responsibility of employers. THE victims of asbestos were able to come together within the Association of Asbestos Victims (Adeva) and obtained important rights : the recognition in courtof the fault of the employer a early retirementet professional medical monitoring .

This specific medical surveillance exists in order to screenearlier an illnessin connection with exposure to asbestos. Therefore, the possibility of benefiting from effective and efficient monitoring by the medical profession is of crucial importance. […]

Within the Ministry of Defense, consultations have improved by the creation of a specific medical log for monitoring the victim. It could have been the same for private sector employees to avoid all the imperfections which become frauds . The disorganization that has affected the Ministry of Defense means that the system is not 100% perfect and many victims are not summoned and do not have a tracking log.”

The alert

“We hereby wish to alert about a local problem concerning the CHPC. Today, medically, our scanners are read in Lyon, due to a lack of radiologists. This situation leads to major dysfunctions. For example, reading the scanner reports of certain victims made the previously detected pleural plaques completely disappear. However, according to the medical profession, such an evolution is materially and physically impossible. There is no question here of blaming radiologists. These are overloaded with ever more numerous examinations to control.

The consequence of this situation is too rapid an interpretation, possibly entrusted to simple algorithms, which no longer makes it possible to detect and confirm the presence of the tiny pleural plaques always present, which exist and will never disappear. The other direct and no less detrimental consequence of this situation involves that tiny pleural plaques are no longer interpreted and declared as an occupational disease. In the North Cotentin which could be described as “pilot” territory given the dramatic number of victims of this condition, it is implausible and unacceptable not to have a radiologist to read our scanners in our public hospital ».

The request

“Given your interest and your involvement in asbestos victims, we are asking you to intervene within the CHPC and the ARS (Regional Health Agency) so that this scandal stops and that we have radiologists in our public hospital to interpret our scanners, x-rays… rather than these patients being forced to use the services of the Polyclinique du Cotentin to be able to leave with the scanner and the report carried out on site.”

The answer

Contacted, Benoit Arrivé, president of the CHPC Supervisory Board, indicated that he will share “these difficulties with the members of the board during the next meeting ».

He also recalls that “the pneumology serviceof the CHPC has been supporting for many years the patientssuffering from an asbestos-related condition.

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