[CPEO-MEF] Subic Bay workers (Philippines)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US’ forgotten workers in Subic

Letter to the Editor
Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 8, 2006

WE, the officers and members of the Yamang Kalikasang Aming 
Pinangangalagaan (Yakap-Subic), an organization of victims of toxic and 
hazardous waste left by the US Navy in its Subic naval base (where we 
used to work), are disturbed that the USNS Mercy, the floating hospital 
of the US Navy, did not include Subic in its Philippine itinerary. 
(Inquirer, 5/22/06). We know how fully equipped this hospital is. It can 
help us who are suffering from various ailments we got from working in 
the Subic base.

Out of the 1,500 members of our organization, there are 1,200 of us 
still living. But every day, we are getting weaker. Our members die at 
the rate of three to four persons a month. Three hundred have already 
died -- and probably many others more from another 8,000 workers who 
were exposed to asbestos.

The latest case was Ces Olmo. He worked for 27 years in the base. He was 
diagnosed with mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer caused by asbestos.

...

For the entire letter, see
http://news.inq7.net/opinion/index.php?index=1&story_id=78431

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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