A sixth staff member has been identified with a brain tumor in a Massachusetts hospital, which earlier this month he insisted that “there are no environmental risks” at stake.
The six employees work or have worked on the fifth floor or at the Newton-Wellesley hospital of General Mass Brigham, located about 20 minutes west Boston.
Each of the cerebral tumor cases was benign, thought that six additional employees on the floor had “other health conerns” were discovered.
Earlier this month, it was learned that several nurses who work in the maternal and childbirth work unit had developed brain tumors.
One of those nurses told CBS News that it was among the 10 nurses who had had brain tumors, both cancerous and non -cancerous, in recent years.
“It is reaching the point where the number only increases, and you begin to say:” Am I crazy thinking about this? “” This cannot be a coincidence. ”
However, the hospital insists that after an investigation, they discovered that they were where they were, they were on that floor of fifteen floor that would contribute to these tumors.
“After we realized the brain tumors informed in people who were currently or previously worked in the same hospital area, we made a wide investment in collaboration with the occupational deposit, the radio, Newton-Wellty-Wellty, Newton-Wellty-Welly, security offices and external environmental consultants,” Newton-Wellesley Hospital officials said NBC10 Boston.
Since it began in December, they talked to the staff and performed “comprehensive environmental evaluations after the guidelines of the CDC.”
“The research did not find environmental risks that could be related to the development of a brain tumor,” they concluded.
They also discovered that only five staff members at that time, all nurses, who had brain tumors. They did not elaborate the health concerns of the other six.
NBC10 Boston has reported that a sixth employee with a tumor has been presented, according to a hospital representative.
The hospital has told employees that their health, well -being and security are their “priority.”
Not declared with the investigation is the Massachusetts nurses association, which told Boston.com that they are committed to the hospital about their investigation.
“They only talked to a small number of nurses and their environmental evidence were not integral,” they said. “The hospital cannot make this problem disappear trying to provide a default conclusion.”
Meanwhile, the nurse who estimated that the total number of cases is higher than confirmed by the investigation, says that the hospital has not been sufficient, especially in the light of the nurses.
“We want to raise, because this does not have a leg, a reassuring fits a few months for many staff members,” he said. “We want to feel safe, in the same way that we want our patients to feel safe.”