Queens Ground Zero Workers Health Watch World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment.

摘要

Over 50,000 men and women worked at Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City, and at the Staten Island landfill, the principal depository for WTC debris. Firefighters, law enforcement officers, paramedics, construction workers, utility workers, volunteers, and others carried out rescue-and-recovery operations, restored essential services, cleaned up massive amounts of debris. Within weeks of September 11, workers began noting symptoms most commonly involving the aero-digestive tract, i.e. - upper and lower respiratory tract and gastro-esophageal reflux symptoms. Mental symptoms, especially associated with trauma-related stress were also reported. In 2002, the Federal Government established the WTC Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program (MSP) was established in the summer of 2002 in order to identify possible WTC-related health effects in WTC responders. The MSP was a multi-center clinical screening program that provided free standardized examinations to responders between July 2002 and April 2004. Examinations included medical, mental health, and exposure assessment questionnaires, physical examination, spirometry, both pre- and post-bronchodilator, and chest X-ray. CBNS of Queens College undertook WTC MSP screening examinations between April 2003 and June 2004.With direct funding from NIOSH, CBNS established the WTC Medical Monitoring Program (MMP), beginning on June 1, 2004. In October of 2006, the Queens Clinical Center received supplemental funding from NIOSH to provide treatment services for participants with WTC-related mental and/or physical health conditions under a program that was entitled: The WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program (WTCMMTP).