Social Security is only recognizing between 3 and 7 percent of the applications submitted as an occupational disease.
The administrations make things very difficult for workers who have to prove that their illness, Many times a cancer has a work origin.
We have heard many times about asbestos, and the serious consequences it has for the health of people who have been exposed to it through their work, but what we did not imagine is that Social Security is rejecting the vast majority of occupational disease claims despite being endorsed by medical reports and reports from other administrations such as Osalan.
social security is only recognizing between 3 and 7 percent of applications submitted as an occupational disease related to MESO-THELIOMA by asbestos, and only 1 percent in general cases of lung cancer.
Osalan herself acknowledges a very high underreporting of occupational diseases of work origin. In the first 7 months of 2022 in the Basque Country only 10 occupational cancers have been recognized, and in all of 2021 five, but there are many more applications, practically all of them supported by medical reports and by the Basque Occupational Health Service.
In the Basque Country, unlike Spain, cancer is the main cause of death among the global population. According to figures from Osalan, between 20 and 40 percent of cancers diagnosed in industry workers have an occupational origin.
Aitor Guisasolaresponsible for Occupational Health at Osalan and Jesus Uzkudunspokesman for the association of those affected ASVIAMIE, and who also has a chronic illness caused by asbestos, have been on “Boulevard” of Radio Euskadi.
Source: Eitb
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