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In November 2023, the Snes-FSU union in Val-de-Marne sounded the alarm: 9 cancers had been diagnosed among the staff of the same high school in a few years. The Ile-de France Regional Health Agency has just launched investigations to understand the reason.
In ten years, the staff of the Romain-Rolland high school in Ivry-sur-Seine, in Val-de-Marne, have experienced not one, but 9 cancers: six cases of breast cancer and three pancreatic cancers have been diagnosed. among professors and employees of the establishment, reports The Parisian. A figure too high to be due to chance according to the Snes-FSU union in Val-de-Marne, which raised the alarm last November. “Staff at the Romain-Rolland high school are worried about their health.logically pointed out the staff representatives.
Imbroglio around a nearby incinerator
According to the daily, things are moving today to discover the cause of these cancers. The Île-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS) announces that it is currently carrying out investigations… which could be lengthy.
The nearby Syctom incineration plant was, for a time, in the sights. The World notably revealed a study carried out by the ToxicoWatch foundation, a Dutch NGO on the significant concentration of dioxins, toxic molecules, around this incinerator.
However, the matter no longer seems to be settled on this point since the Agency announced today that “Unless there is a situation of regular, very long-standing, and intense consumption of eggs from domestic henhouses, the link between exposure to dioxins emitted by the incinerator and the appearance of cancer among high school staff is very improbable.”
A call heard for the union
In any case, the case has now been taken in hand and an official investigation launched: the health agency must now access medical records and collect information from patients to discuss the circumstances of the illness, the protocol for care received, and determine the possible causes, particularly environmental.
A step that does not go unnoticed by the staff: “It’s a response to a call: we have been heard.”estimates a teacher affected by breast cancer in 2018, in daily life. Here’s hoping that answers are discovered and this drama series comes to an end.
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