Hospital 労働者, 73, who was exposed to asbestos during a 40-year career gets £235,000 payout from the NHS after 存在 診断するd with 癌

  • Wayne Churches, 73, was exposed to asbestos working as a hospital engineer
  • Mr Churches, of Abergavenny, むちの跡s, won a £235,000 payout from the NHS
  • He had to clean out the hospital 空気／公表する 導管s 定期的に?which were '十分な of asbestos'??
  • He?was 診断するd with mesothelioma, an 積極的な form of 癌 in 2017?

By Joseph 法律s For Mailonline

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A hospital 労働者 won a £235,000 payout from the NHS after his 職業 gave him 癌.

Wayne Churches, 73, was exposed to asbestos while working as a hospital engineer for 40 years.

But after retiring, grandfather Mr Churches was 診断するd with mesothelioma, an 積極的な form of 癌, in 2017.

Father-of-three Mr Churches, from Abergavenny, retired in 2010 but his health soon began to deteriorate and he was diagnosed with mesothelioma in June 2017. He?is now undergoing immunotherapy treatment in the hope it could improve the length and quality of his life

Father-of-three Mr Churches, from Abergavenny, retired in 2010 but his health soon began to 悪化する and he was 診断するd with mesothelioma in June 2017. He?is now を受けるing immunotherapy 治療 in the hope it could 改善する the length and 質 of his life

The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board 認める 義務／負債 over his 病気 because he worked in asbestos-覆う？ buildings at Nevill Hall hospital in Abergavenny, south むちの跡s.

Mr Churches said: '支援する then I just didn't know how much of a problem it was - nobody told me.

'I remember going into work at Nevill Hall, and one of the 職業s I had to do 定期的に was （疑いを）晴らすing out the 空気／公表する 導管s which I now know were 十分な of asbestos.

Wayne Churches, 73, was exposed to asbestos while working as a hospital engineer for 40 years.?The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board 認める 義務／負債 over his 病気 because he worked in asbestos-覆う？ buildings at Nevill Hall hospital in Abergavenny, south むちの跡s

'The only 器具／備品 I was given was a たいまつ - nobody wore 保護の masks. After I'd finished, I'd just 小衝突 the dust off my 着せる／賦与するs and clean myself up as much as I could.'

Father-of-three Mr Churches, from Abergavenny, retired in 2010 but his health soon began to 悪化する and he was 診断するd with mesothelioma in June 2017.

He said: ' When you retire you think, 'Now I'm comfortable and I can do the things I want to do', but mesothelioma starts later in life, and it lay 活動停止中の for years without me knowing.

'The diagnosis was 破滅的な for all of us. I'd always been in good health and I'd never smoked. I'd taken it in good 約束 that the 環境s I worked in were 安全な.'?

Mr Churches is now を受けるing immunotherapy 治療 in the hope it could 改善する the length and 質 of his life. The 治療 is not 現在／一般に 利用できる on the NHS.?

He said: 'That's why it was so disappointing that when I most needed the NHS, there wasn't any help 利用できる for me.

'I was only given chemotherapy, but this was never going to get rid of the mesothelioma. I'm not ready to give up. I want more time with my wife, children and grandchildren.'?

What is mesothelioma and how ありふれた is it?

Mesothelioma is a type of 癌 that develops in the lining that covers the outer surface of some of the 団体／死体's 組織／臓器s. It's usually linked to asbestos （危険などに）さらす.

It おもに 影響する／感情s the lining of the 肺s (pleural mesothelioma), although it can also 影響する／感情 the lining of the tummy (peritoneal mesothelioma), heart or testicles.

More than 2,600 people are 診断するd with the 条件 each year in the UK. Most 事例／患者s are 診断するd in people 老年の 60-80 and men are 影響する／感情d more 一般的に than women.

Unfortunately it's rarely possible to cure mesothelioma, although 治療 can help 支配（する）／統制する the symptoms.

The symptoms of mesothelioma tend to develop 徐々に over time. They typically don't appear until several １０年間s after （危険などに）さらす to asbestos.

Mesothelioma is almost always 原因（となる）d by （危険などに）さらす to asbestos, a group of minerals made of microscopic fibres that used to be 広範囲にわたって used in construction.

These tiny fibres can easily get in the 肺s, where they get stuck, 損失ing the 肺s over time. It usually takes a while for this to 原因（となる） any obvious problems, with mesothelioma typically developing more than 20 years after （危険などに）さらす to asbestos.

The use of asbestos was 完全に banned in 1999, so the 危険 of （危険などに）さらす is much lower nowadays. However, 構成要素s 含む／封じ込めるing asbestos are still 設立する in many older buildings.

Source: NHS Choices?

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'I've been awarded some 財政上の 補償（金）, but money isn't everything. We might use some of it to go on holiday - it's a lot more expensive for me to go anywhere now because of the 器具／備品 I need for my 肺s - but apart from that we'll probably use it to help our children out financially or put it into university 基金s for our grandchildren.'?

'I want others like me, who were exposed to asbestos through their work, to hear my story and realise immunotherapy is an 選択, so that they have more time to spend with the people they love.'?

A Welsh 政府 spokeswoman said: 'Mesothelioma immunotherapy is still 存在 developed in 臨床の 裁判，公判s and is not yet ready to be used as a 決まりきった仕事 治療 by the NHS.'

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