Social Security recognizes only between 3 and 7 percent of the applications submitted as occupational diseases.
The administrations make it very difficult for employees who have to prove that their illness, Cancer often has a work origin.
We have often heard about asbestos and the serious health effects it has on people exposed to it through their work, but what we could not imagine is that Social Security denies the vast majority of claims for occupational illness despite being endorsed by medical reports and reports from other administrations such as Osalan.
social Security recognizes only between 3 and 7 percent of the applications submitted as occupational diseases related to MESO-THELIOMA by asbestos, and barely 1 percent in overall cases of lung cancer.
Osalan itself acknowledges a very high under-reporting of work-related occupational illnesses. In the first 7 months of 2022, only 10 occupational cancers have been recognized in the Basque Country, and five in all of 2021, but there are many more applications, almost all supported by medical reports and by the Basque Occupational Health and Safety Service.
In the Basque Country, unlike Spain, cancer is the leading cause of death among the world’s population. According to figures from Osalan, between 20 and 40 percent of cancers diagnosed in industrial workers are of occupational origin.
Aitor Guisasolaresponsible for occupational health at Osalan and Jesus Uzkudunspokesperson for the association of those affected ASVIAMIE, who also has a chronic illness caused by asbestos, has been on “Boulevard” on Radio Euskadi.
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