The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a draft policy paper on the elimination of asbestos related diseases
Currently about 124 million people in the world are exposed to asbestos. Each year about 89,000 people die from asbestos related diseases: lung cancer – 39,000, mesothelioma -43,000 and asbestosis – 5,000.
The WHO is hopes to encourage governments to work to towards a number of strategic objectives:
To stop the use of asbestos
To take measures to avoid exposure to asbestos during abatement work
To provide information about replacing asbestos with safer substitutes, and developing economic and technological mechanisms to stimulate replacement of asbestos by safer substitutes
To improve early diagnosis, treatment, social and medical rehabilitation and compensation of asbestos related diseases and to establish registries of people with past and /or current exposures to asbestos
WHO strongly recommends that governments introduce national plans to deal with these issues.
To read the full draft report click on the link below.
www.who.int/entity/occupational_health/publications/draft.WHO.policy.paper.on.asbestos.related.diseases.pdf
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