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The Directorate General of Public Health of the Autonomous Region held at the request of the City of Cartagena track by Repsol Oil subcontractors whose workers could be affected by the amianto.Así has assured the Director General of Public Health and Addictions Counseling of Health of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Manuel Molina Foix, in reply to a letter from the mayor, J ose Lopez, which moved the agreement of the Local Government last month urged diciembre.Dicho agreement the Ministry of Health to request Repsol and subcontractors to hand over the list of former employees post exposed to asbestos and collect the University Hospital St. Lucia in cases of future deaths of former workers who have been smokers and they were exposed to asbestos, autopsies and samplings of lung tissue realizasen to send the Valle Hebron Hospital, so that the relevant evidence requested all associations of workers and former workers affected by the result could be carried amianto.Como this counseling asked Repsol information workers who at some point had belonged to the company, with the intention of monitoring the health of those who through clinical databases suspicion of previous asbestos exposures were taken. Repsol said last February 4 ensuring that workers in the complex do not perform or have performed in the past activities and operations that could pose a risk to asbestos, because these operations were carried out by specialized companies, contributing to the Ministry of the contracts made ​​since 1991. based on that relationship the Directorate General of Public health will proceed with following up on subcontractors, in view of the powers it holds in the field of occupational health.

As for performing clinical autopsies, the Ministry states that it is a matter governed by law, which states that autopsy studies can only be done physician 's request and with the consent of the family or legal representative of the deceased, where technically possible and there is a medical interest based on any of the assumptions enumeran.Del result of the efforts made ​​by the mayor on this issue has realized the association affected by asbestos, APENA, and the different municipal groups of the city

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena