The World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai has been awarded eight years’ worth of funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, up to $340 million, Mount Sinai has reported.
More than 25,000 people affected by World Trade Center-related illnesses can now continue to receive much-needed care.
After long outcry to add uterine cancer to the list of cancers linked to 9/11, in May 2022 the World Trade Center Health Program said they would be doing so. There was the required 45-day public review. By early June, uterine cancer should have been on the list. Now at the end of October, it is not on the list, reports Thomas Tracy for the New York Daily News.
Retired Con Edison employee Cheryl Hall, who worked at the recovery efforts for weeks, has uterine cancer and paid for her own surgery earlier this year. She told the News, “Part of me feels they’re hoping we die before they have to take care of us. I really believe that had this been a man’s disease and a man could get uterine cancer, it would have been covered right away.”
Apparently the reasons for the delay are political, not scientific.
A Times Square ceremony honored several local firefighters, police officers and EMS workers for National First Responders Day. One of those who received an award was our friend PAPD Lt. Commander John Ryan, who was honored for his tireless work during the World Trade Center recovery efforts, writes Monica Morales for WPIX11.
Ryan has served the Port Authority Police Department for 43 years.
