Focus on Ailments
Conference on Assisting Trade Center Personnel

By GINGER ADAMS OTIS

The World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program will hold a free all-day conference for World Trade Center emergency and service responders who are enrolled in the WTC Medical Monitoring Program on Saturday, Nov. 11.

"9/11: Living With The Aftermath," will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the first-floor auditorium of District Council 37 headquarters at 125 Barclay St.

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With more than 400 emergency rescue and recovery, service restoration and clean-up workers and volunteers expected to attend, the event will provide valuable information on World Trade Center medical and mental health-related exposures and available treatment and benefit programs for those in need.

Responders currently enrolled in the Federally-funded WTC Medical Monitoring Program are invited to attend. Pre-registration is required and may be made by calling 212-241-7830, or by visiting the program Web site at www.wtcexams.org .

Eligible WTC worker and volunteer responders not yet enrolled in any Federal program are urged to take this opportunity to enroll in existing free confidential medical screening and monitoring efforts and mention the conference by calling the Federal program's toll-free hotline at 888-702-0630.

Programs currently being offered for WTC-responders in the New York metro area and nationwide offer free and no-out-of-pocket-cost medical services such as comprehensive medical screening and monitoring examinations, coordinated under the auspices of the Mount Sinai Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine, as well as medical and mental health treatment services. To date such programs have provided free medical screening exams to some 32,000 WTC responders of an estimated population of over 40,000 responders potentially affected by exposures.