According to recent figures from the National Board of Industrial Injuries (Arbejdsskadestyrelsen), the number of registered pleural cancers has doubled since the law on the protection of occupational diseases has been amended last summer. (Ref. 080371)
A historical scandal. This is how, on April 28, during the international monitoring for working environment, Ejner Holst, LO secretary, defined the fact that, for several years, physicians did not tell the competent authorities about their patients hit by pleural cancers. And yet they had to if they suspected that this pathology was linked to work. The fact that the cases of cancers registered by the National Board of Industrial Injuries (Arbejdsskadestyrelsen) doubled “shows that many patients
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