MCS in Europe

You're invited to MCS Awareness Month 2010

2009-07-06T09:15:00.005+02:00

Lourdes Salvador from the organization MCS America invites all to the event "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Awareness Month - Because Everyone is At Risk!". It will start on 1st may 2010 at 00.00 and it will end on 31st may 2010 at 11.55 p.m.

Lourdes says: "I have just created a Facebook page for MCS America. Fans of MCS America will see posted links, events, and news content on their homepage.Please become a 'fan' and let everyone else who may be interested know about the page.".

See more details on FaceBook or on MCS America.

You can organize events in your own country to inform the general public and to ask for politic actions in favour of MCS people and for the prevention of Toxic Injuries.

To learn how to promote MCS awareness or download our Event Planning Kit.http://mcs-america.org/MCSAwarenessMonthEventPlanningKit.

View Awareness Month Governor Proclamations http://www.mcs-america.org/index_files/proclamations.htm

The Naked Truth about MCS

2009-07-02T12:59:00.004+02:00

We are born naked, they give us cologne, perfumed nappies, clothes washed with softeners, creams with all kinds of possible aromas, and they drive us in plastic stroller while we breathe nice polluted air.
We grow up and they make us believe that we can achieve anything we want, that we can write our future, that the happiness is based in buy everything and the state is here to protect and watch over us, although I had my doubts.

One day, you wake up and nothing has sense. You switch on the table lamp and your eyes get burnt; you open the window and perceive new smells that don’t let you breathe. You turn on the radio and the music booms in your head, so much that you fear it will explode. And you don’t have a hangover. It’s worse. It’s been called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) and has come to stay. Your body has said ‘enough’, has been broken and starts rejecting everything that they told you was essential for your happiness. Your life has taken an unexpected turn, your mind changes, your future vanishes, you don’t have physical nor mental energy. The disease forces you to live your life behind a mask and have been in isolation from the outside world.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is not strange, nor a minority. It affects to the 5% of the population. It’s a chronic disease, not psychological, which causes symptoms as a response to a minimal exposure to usual and unnecessary chemical products like bleach, air fresheners, perfumes, etc. We live locked in our houses but it’s not necessary to go out to have a crisis. Your neighbour’s cloths airing outside suffocate you, make you feel sick until you loose consciousness, thanks to the wonderful toxic softeners.
The World Health Organization (WHO) don’t recognize MCS as a disease yet, in spite of having in their possession innumerable studies that prove its existence and the European Parliament includes it inside the growing number of diseases related to environmental factors. The reason is the pressure that the chemical and pharmaceutical industry exerts for not recognize it, because MCS is caused by the chemical products that we use to consume. The economical interests in front of our health. In countries which this problem is recognized, like Germany, medical assistance and financial aids towards it are provided, and in some other countries it is being considered at the moment.

And what’s the situation in Spain? We don’t exist to our paternal government. On top of the drama of suffering MCS, they abandon us, without medical assistance and without any right to a disability benefit when we can’t work. They leave us naked and unprotected, like second class citizens, because we’re the evidence that the current model of society has failed, although nobody wants to see it or to take measures to sort it out.

They too steal any hopes we might have of feeling better. Pharmacists finance research only when they can obtain any profit. As a result of this, minority diseases don’t get research, not even MCS, which affect to the 5% of the population. The chemical and pharmaceutical industry knows that we get sick because we’re intoxicated and the key is not any medicine that will make them rich. The key is to change the model of this society, decreasing the big quantity of chemical products to which we’re exposed each day. Obviously, this can’t be known and they try to deny that MCS exists, because their economical interests would be at stake.

The chemical industry, supported by the government, doesn’t have the right to subjugate the population to the involuntary exposure to chemical substances, whose effects are often unknown. When we develop MCS, we must throw away perfumes, softeners, plastics, etc., to be naked again. We born again, but it’s a new life that we don’t choose. We know by the researches that have been done that MCS has genetic components, so not anybody could develop it, although this doesn’t save you to accumulate toxics until you have a cancer or any other disease related to environmental factors.

Those who suffer MCS want the disease to be recognized; we want to have the same rights as the other chronically ill people; we want society to know the risk they are under; we want the government to protect its citizens and prevent them from getting sick at no cost for them.

We don’t want anybody feeling naked again as a result of suffering MCS.

Link to magazine Delirio Nº 3. Desnudo.
English translation from the Canary Report
Link Eva’s blog NO FUN.

Sign the Petition for an Italian Law for MCS

2009-06-27T21:43:00.002+02:00

The Petition is sponsored by the Association for the Chronic Diseases of intoxication and / or Environmental (AMICA)
www.sensibilitachimica.it and it is aimed at pushing the discussion of the five projects of laws for the recognition of MCS as a social disease.

To President of the Senate of the Italian Republic
To the President of the Chamber of Deputies
To the XII Commission for Social Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies
To the XII Commission for Hygiene and Health of the Senate

Since Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a chronic debilitating disease that leads to multiorgan reactions after the exposure to various chemicals in small traces usually tolerated by the general population (the diagnostic criteria were established by an International Consensus in 1999);

Since 2-10% of the population appears to be hyper-sensitive to chemicals in the environment and in everyday life products and since a growing percentage of people suffers from the exposure to multiple substances - this is really Multiple Chemical Sensitivity or MCS - with a disability in the capacity of working, of having a social life and of autonomy, which varies from mild to very severe digree depending on the stage of the disease;

Since the MCS is recognized by the U.S. Federal Law for the Disabled American with Disabilities Act, the federal agencies - such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development, the Social Security Administration - and many local governments;

Since the MCS is recognized by agencies of the Federal and Provincial Government of Canada;

Since the MCS is classified by Germany since 1998, the International Code of Diseases with code T 78.4 in Chapter 19 (Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes) and in Section T66-T78 (Other and not explained damage by external factors);

Given that the Ministry of Welfare and Labor German, which had already classified MCS as a motor disability (it is compared to this for the inability of patients to move freely), has now removed the description of the disease as a psychosomatic one (of psychological origin / psychiatric), putting an end to discrimination of the environmental diseases;

Given that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, who had already recognized for years the Sick of Building Syndrome (similar to the MCS), announced that MCS will enter the list of diseases covered by the National Health Service in oct 2009;

Since in Italy there is no law that treats the rights of environmental illnesses (not only MCS, but also of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Elettrosensibilità of Fibromyalgia, Sick of Building Syndrome, etc..), just like any other kind of disability in terms of employment protection, right to treatments, right to a "safe" house, etc..;

The petitioners ask that the six legislative proposals of parliamentarians of the House (No. 1621 August 5 2008, No. 1654 of 18 September 2008, No. 1667 of 18 September 2008, N . 2287, 12 March 2009) and Senate (NS1019 of 17 September 2008, No. 1165 of 28 October 2008) for the recognition of MCS as a social disease are discusses with the highest priority and that MCS is recognized using the International Consensus of 1999 as a benchmark for the diagnosis, as it is worldwide.

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Petition for the banning of dental amalgam

2009-06-27T10:05:00.000+02:00

The Italian Organization of Amalgam poisoned people launched a petition for the ban of amalgam fillings. You can sign it here:

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This is the translation into english:

To the Minister of Labor, Health and Social Policies

Since dental amalgam is composed of about 50% liquid mercury that evaporates at the temperature of the mouth and can be absorbed into the body through the saliva, oral mucous membranes in the digestive tract and in oral mucosal;

Since, according to the WHO, the amalgam is the primary source of exposure to mercury vapor;

Since during the removal of old amalgam fillings, there may be a significant release of mercury vapors; Since there are alternatives on the market containing less toxic substances, based on composite plastics;

Since the Food and Drug Administration recently warned consumers of the possible risks that amalgam fillings pose to sensitive people;

Since several studies have suggested a correlation between exposure to mercury from dental dall'amalgama and various diseases such as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, and generally a correlation with autoimmune diseases and neurological disorders;

Since the use of mercury in dental fillings is a form of preventable environmental pollution (pollution is through the human body fluids, through cremation, disposal via from the dental practice that don't have separation machines, etc.). ;

Despite the lack of scientific consensus on the dangers posed by amalgam;

Under the precautionary principle advocated by the European Parliament on 4 September 2008 with the Mid-term Action Plan for Environment and Health 2004-2010;

The petitioners demand that the Italian Ministry of Health prohibites the use of dental amalgam on a nationwide and promotes the training of dentists for the proper removal of amalgam with quadruple protection safety protocol (oxygen mask, slow drill at low-speed with cutting around amalgam without touching it, rubber dam, strong aspiration) and imposing, with a strict law, the use of amalgam separator in dental practice.

LINK: http://www.firmiamo.it/stopalmercuriodentale (copy and paste it on your browser)

Read more:
italian http://www.blogger.com/
english http://www.infoamica.it/english.asp?a=11

The Department of Health of the Austrian Government recognizes MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity as a physical disease

2009-06-26T17:21:00.000+02:00

Just like Germany did in 1998, Austria is now classifying Chemical Sensitivity / MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity as a physical disease under the code T78.4 of the ICD-10 (the register of diseases). The news comes from a recent letter by the Department of Health of the Austrian Government.

MCS in the ICD-10 in Germany
In a letter dated September 4, 2008 the DIMDI, the Cooperation Partner for Germany of the WHO, wrote that MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity was classified in the register ICD-10 GM which is valid in Germany:

T78.4…Allergy, not otherwise specified;
Chapter 19 (Injuries, Intoxication and certain other outcomes), Article T66-T78 (Other and unspecified injuries caused by external causes)

MCS in Austria recognized as physical disease
With a letter dated June 24, 2009 regarding “Chemical Sensitivity / MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (T78.4)”, the Department of Health of the Austrian Government declares that:

In response to Your letter dated 4/14/2009 to the Minister of Health Mr. Stoerger, we inform you that the WHO ICD-10 Code modified for Germany from DIMDI is used in Austria as well.

Also in Austria MCS is not a psychological disease

It should be emphasized that the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) declared explicitly that there is not any allocation of MCS in Chapter 5 (Mental and behavioural disorders) of the ICD-10-GM. Thus, the debate about MCS as mental illness is at an end.

In Germany doctors who document the diagnosis and the hospital administrations work under the Social Security Code V, which states that the diagnoses have to be made according to the systematic list of ICD-10-GM. Thus, the ICD-10 classification is legally binding.

The Department of Health of the Austrian Government refers in the letter that MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is recognized in Austria as a physical disease, because also there it will have the code T78.4 in the ICD-10.

Author: Silvia K. Müller, CSN – Chemical Sensitivity Network, 26. June 2009

References:
Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, Chemikalien-Sensitivität / MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (ICD-10 T78.4), 24.06.2008, Wien, Österreich.
DIMDI Schreiben an CSN, MCS ICD-10, 04.09.2008
DIMDI Schreiben, 04.09.2008

http://www.csn-deutschland.de/icd-10_austria.pdf

http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/2008/10/10/mcs-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-who-icd-10-t784

Japan recognizes Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome June 2009

2009-06-15T09:36:00.000+02:00

While Sick house syndrome, which is a type of Chemical Sensitivity (CS) with symptomps triggered by indoor pollutants (such as formaldehyde and toluene), is already covered by health insurance in Japan, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has for long denied the approval of CS for health insurance coverage, citing "a lack of unified medical opinion" on the condition.

Actually, CS is triggered by a wither range of chemicals that are present both indoors and outdoors such as pesticides and cigarette smoke.
The Tokyo-based organization Sick House Syndrome Liaison Committee had urged the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to officially recognize CS as a medical condition and eventually the Medical Information System Development Center (MEDIS-DC) announced on June 1 that it planned to add CS to such list on Oct. 1

It is estimated that 700,000 japaneese suffer from the condition and are currently paying treatment expenses. Sometimes the clinitians give alternative diagnosis to get the treatment payed to their patients.

Source in italian: http://www.infoamica.it/engart.asp?a=10&sa=0&art=386

Click here for the original Japanese story, (Mainichi Japan) June 12, 2009: http://mainichi.jp/select/science/archive/news/2009/06/12/20090612ddm001040003000c.html
Source in english: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090612p2a00m0na017000c.html

2009-03-22T10:05:00.000+01:00

A new project of Law at the Italian Parliament by MeP Donella Mattesini (2287).

There were already 5 projects:

MeP Annagrazia Calabtia (PdL) presented the project of law for MCS N. 1621 on the 5th august 2008

The MeP Roberto Della Seta (PD) presented the project of law for MCS on the 17th september 2008 with others: Benedetto Adragna (PD), Silvana Amati (PD), Teresa Armato (PD), Franca Chiaromonte (PD), Vannino Chiti (PD), Vincenzo De Luca, Mauro Del Vecchio, Roberto Di Giovan Paolo (PD), Mariapia Garavaglia, Claudio Gustavino (PD), Giuseppe Lumia (PD), Ignazio Marino, Daniela Mazzuconi, Colomba Mongiello, Giacomo Santini (PdL), Giuseppe Saro (PdL), Achille Serra (PD), Albertina Soliani (PD), Helga Thaler Ausserhofer (UDC-SVP-Aut), Vincenzo Maria Vita (PD)

The MeP Silvana Mura (Italia dei Valori) presented the project of law for MCS N. 1654 on the 18th september 2008 with Di Pietro, Borghesi, Cambursano, Cimadoro, Evangelisti, Favia, MEssina, Monai, Leoluca Orlando, Piffari, Porcino, Porfidia, Razzi, Rota.

The MeP Bernardo Maurizio del PdL presented the project of law for MCS N. 1667 on the 18th september 2008.

The MePs Adriana Poli Bortone (PdL) and Rosario Giorgio Costa (PdL) presented a project of law on the 28th october 2008.

An Italian Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Sufferer Shouts an “Inconvenient” Truth with his Death

2009-03-04T14:50:00.000+01:00

Press Release - Rome, 3rd march 2009 – Just a couple of weeks past the suicide of a lady with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) in Tuscany[1], Giancarlo Guiaro, 55 years old, who was affected by Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), commits suicide, shooting himself in the office of his doctor.

“We know him from many years and recently we followed his legal action against the Health Services Administration of the Region Emilia Romagna –Donatella Stocchi, co-founder of A.M.I.C.A. comments – he just asked to go on with the therapies of a German doctor who helped him very much, because he wanted to regain a life as normal as possible, while the Region denied him the reimbursement of the therapies”.

The doctors of the Center for MCS of the Hospital Sant’Orsola Malpighi in Bologna declared in Court that they could treat MCS patients but Giancarlo complained he did not trust doctors with no specific experience in MCS treatment who just wanted to study this new illness. Morover, Giancarlo used to repeat that his MCS started after an experimental hormonal treatment he received (without notice) just in the same hospital a few years ago.

Giancarlo’s lawyer brought a complaint about these facts to the Prosecutor's Office, but the practice was archived.

“It’s not by chance that he ended his life in the office of his doctor; it’s an extreme cry for help that will weigh on the conscience of the doctors of Bologna, of the Superior Council for Health -– Francesca Romana Orlando, Vice President of A.M.I.C.A. comments – but this fact is also a warning to our Members of Parliament to approve an immediate law for MCS (we have five projects waiting to be discussed[2]) and to prevent the conflict of interest in the medical area.”

“For us it is inconceivable that the management of MCS is given to experts of occupational medicine whose hospital/university received funds from an insurance that is facing dozens of trials vs MCS patients”, she concludes.

Donatella Stocchi remembers that “He was an active and intelligent man, full of life and instead was forced to stay in his car to run away from the fumes of chimneys of neighbours, from pesticides spraying, from paint fumes, etc.”

For people with MCS chemical avoidance in the home environment is comparable to a life-saving drug and, in fact, in the United States and Canada, the MCS is covered in the guidelines of urban planning and environmental laws and there are public houses for MCS.

Last September, the Superior Council of Health presented a position paper according which MCS cannot be recognized as a rare disease since it affects 2-10% of the population and it can not be even recognized as a real “illness” because there aren’t diagnostic tests.

“Actually, many illnesses are recognized even if there is not a specific diagnostic test, for example migrain and Fibromyalgia – the Vice President of A.M.I.C.A. adds – and all over the world the diagnosis of MCS is based on the 1999 International Consensus Criteria which are the conclusion of a 10-year long study.”

“The Chemical Sensitivity is a condition recognized, but it becomes a problem when it comes to multiple chemicals together – Miss Orlando adds– today from Japan to USA, from Germany to Denmark, the diagnosis of MCS is based on 5 criteria and the individual can obtain a legal recognition of disability on the base of his/her own chronic illnesses”.

“We suspected that the MCS was not going to be recognized in Italy when we read, 2 years ago, the position paper draft of the inter-regional working group on MCS (of which the doctors of Bologna were members) –Silvia Bigeschi, Vice President of A.M.I.C.A. claims – because it quoted so many studies by scientists with conflict of interests who consider MCS a “psychosomatic disorder”; so we wrote immediately to the Second Chamber of the Superior Council of Health and we sent a large volume of studies with the pray to consider the new evidences about the neurological and metabolic anomalies in MCS, but this was ineffective. Nonetheless, MCS is considered a physical disability not only in the U.S. and in Germany, so Italy should not be left behind”.[3]

[1] http://www.infoamica.it/engart.asp?a=5&sa=0&art=373
[2] Projects of law for MCS: http://mcseurope.blogspot.com/2008/12/projects-of-laws-for-mcs-recognition-in.html
[3] MCS recognition in Germany http://mcseurope.blogspot.com/2009/01/idc-10-code-for-mcs.html

MCS International TV

2009-01-03T18:58:00.001+01:00

The IDC-10 code for MCS

2009-01-01T15:47:00.001+01:00

We know from a letter sent by Dr. Ursula Küppers of the DIMDI (The Deuth Institute for the Scientific Documentation and Medical Information) to a patient that MCS is classified in the International Code of Disease ICD-10-GM. In particular it is listed under the chapter:
T78.4... Allergies, not precisely qualified;
Chapter 19 (Injuries, Poisonings, and other injuries with external causes) Sezione T66-T78 (Altri e non precisati danni attraverso cause esterne)

There is no any classification for MCS under the Chapter 5 (psychic and behavioural problems).

See the original letter here!

Striking News from Germany

2008-12-27T21:43:00.000+01:00

Germany eliminated the psychosomatic cause from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity guidelines.

The Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (Ministry of Social Support) has just removed the statement from the government’s disability guidelines that said Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is a somatoform (psychological) disorder.

The German government has struck out the statement from its MCS guidelines stating the illness is psychosomatic.

Here is a translation of the news received through email via Canada’s branch of the Global Recognition Campain.

Silvia Mueller writes on Christmas Eve:"Here is the best message. The German Government Department for Social is the main department for disability, The Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales. There are guidelines which are used by doctors, courts, authorities,… when it comes to a disability.

In our disability guidelines MCS is a physical disease. It is registered in the part for movement disorders, because we can’t go everywhere, etc. There was one sentence in this guideline which was disturbing and used by opposition to refuse our cases and say we are psychosomatic cases. It said MCS is a somatoform disorder.

One of my people at CSN wrote to the department and asked that this nasty sentence is removed from the guidelines. Now MCS is a physical disease nothing else. We have also the ICD-10 which says MCS is a physical disease. With these two tools nobody can discriminate us anymore."

Source: http://www.thecanaryreport.org/2008/12/25/germany-strikes-psychosomatic-cause-from-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-guidelines/

Original source in german: http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/2008/12/24/die-psychiatrisierung-von-mcs-kranken-stellt-in-deutschland-den-tatbestand-der-diskriminierung-koerperlich-behinderter-dar/

MCS, a secret affair

2008-12-15T22:17:00.000+01:00

Unlike other countries, where position papers of governamental agencies on health issues are given a period of public comment, in Italy things go very differently.

In 2004 the National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS) held a one-day conference on MCS, during which some doctors, like Dr Roberto Lucchini and prof. Lorenzo Alessio from the University of Brescia, reported their own experience with MCS diagnosis.

Dr Ottaviano Tapparo, dentist from Munich (Germany), talked about his experience of treatment with amalgam safe-protocol removal in MCS patients.

In 2004-2005 the Council of 4 regions - Tuscany, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna and Abruzzo- recognized MCS and stated the opening of health centers for the diagnosis and treatment of MCS, but also social support. The recognition was a consequence of a petition that gathered about 25,000 subscriptions.

MCS sufferes though that their problems were having a solution, but the hope was soon lost when it come out that in the Regional Commissions there were psychologists and doctors of occupational medicine.Why?

Immediately after the recognition of MCS by the 4 regions, in fact, the SIMLII, a professional organization of occupational medicine, published a position paper about MCS. The main concept of it was that MCS doesn't exist and if MCS exists it's a psychiatric obsession of patients against chemicals. Moreover, the paper also suggested that doctors who make diagnosis of MCS are illuding the sufferers and making the National Health System and Insurances lost (irrationally) money.

Soon afterwords, the doctors of the regional commissions refused to make diagnosis and asked for more research to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità or ISS (the National Institute of Health), that created a commission. And time passed....

The inter-regional commission took more than one year to study about 1,000 articles from peer-reviewed journals. There were no news about the progressions of such commission until in the summer of 2007, at a court in Florence, the lawyer of the Region Tuscany presented a position paper of the inter-regional commission stating that MCS doesn't exist and people with such sensitivities can be treated sympomatically (that is to say with drugs or psychotherapy).

Most interestingly, that position paper shouldn't have been open to the public because it had not been licenced by the Superior Council of Health (Consiglio Superiore di Sanità, CSS, the Superior Council of Health is the the Consultive arm of the ministry of Health). Any position paper about health issues, in fact, must pass the evaluation of such Council.

That document was presented as official but it was only the opinion of the subscribers and not of the ministry of Health. So the MCS patient who had opened the controversy vs the Region Tuscany to have the right to be treated abroad in specialized centers, lost her battle.

The document of the inter-regional commission was somehow shocking because suggested a questionnaire with questions about the family income, the ratial identity, the state of marriage or divorce and even about any mortgages!

One more year had to pass before the final judgment of the CSS. This came on the 25 september 2008: MCS is not a real condition because there is not a single diagnostic test.

So even if the italian organization of MCS people wrote to the CSS twice to ask for a better evaluation of other studies not considered by the inter-regional report, the CSS preferred to deny the illness.

No MCS, no treatments

2008-12-08T06:05:00.000+01:00

7 dicembre 2008 - An article published on La Nuova Ferrara, daily newspaper of the city of Ferrara, describes the situation of MCS in Italy now.

The Superior Council of Health, the scientific arm of the ministry of Health, has just published a position paper about MCS, claiming that “it doesn’t seem as a real illness and there are no evidences in the scientific literature”.

Moreover, a 43-year old lady from Ferrara with severe MCS has just lost a legal controversy vs the ASL (the agengy of health assistance of the punlich health services) and the local administration of the Regione Emilia Romagna for the reimboursment of therapies.

At the first grade the judge decided she was right and made the Asl pay to her 15.000 euros, that she had spent for IV of vitamines, gluthation and minerals from a german doctor who went to her house (she can not travel, not even enter a hospital).

Now the joudge of the Court of Appeal of Ferrara, Roberto Vignatti, decides that she must give back that sum. According to the judge Vignatti there aren’t scientific proves of the efficacy of the therapy, even though the family doctor of the lady testified that she was much better after the treatment.

The judge believed to the doctors of the center of Bologna for MCS at the hospital Sant’Orsola who claim to be able to treat any MCS patient, but how? The lady from Ferrara denunced to the newspaper that the assistance given by the ASL is a nurse that comes to take samples for blood test and a cardiological consultation once a year. The woman criticized also the center of S.Orsola for not giving her any therapy and for not being physically fir for the MCS access, since now there are restoration works.

A few days after the position paper of the Superior Council for Health, the doctor that works for MCS at the hospital Sant’Orsola says that he will not have his contract renewed on december.

Projects of Laws for MCS Recognition in Italy

2008-12-07T15:09:00.000+01:00

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a physical illness that causes reactions to several chemicals at very low dose. MCS sufferers react with asthma, rhynitis, vertigo, headache, tinnitus, stomacache, eye rash and even seizures to several chemicals such as fragrances, pesticides, printed papers, toner, plastics, tar, fresh paint, particleboard, smog, industrial fumes, etc.

At the Italian Parliament there are several project of laws to help people with chemical sensitivity that is an "environmental disability" such as a "physical disability" since MCS sufferers can not enter into a public place, not even into a hospital because of the household cleaning profucts, the fragrances used by other people, etc.

MeP Annagrazia Calabtia (PdL) presented the project of law for MCS N. 1621 on the 5th august 2008
http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0011860.pdf

The MeP Roberto Della Seta (PD) presented the project of law for MCS on the 17th september 2008 with others: Benedetto Adragna (PD), Silvana Amati (PD), Teresa Armato (PD), Franca Chiaromonte (PD), Vannino Chiti (PD), Vincenzo De Luca, Mauro Del Vecchio, Roberto Di Giovan Paolo (PD), Mariapia Garavaglia, Claudio Gustavino (PD), Giuseppe Lumia (PD), Ignazio Marino, Daniela Mazzuconi, Colomba Mongiello, Giacomo Santini (PdL), Giuseppe Saro (PdL), Achille Serra (PD), Albertina Soliani (PD), Helga Thaler Ausserhofer (UDC-SVP-Aut), Vincenzo Maria Vita (PD)
http://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/Ddliter/32307.htm

The MeP Silvana Mura (Italia dei Valori) presented the project of law for MCS N. 1654 on the 18th september 2008 with Di Pietro, Borghesi, Cambursano, Cimadoro, Evangelisti, Favia, MEssina, Monai, Leoluca Orlando, Piffari, Porcino, Porfidia, Razzi, Rota.
http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0014490.pdf

The MeP Bernardo Maurizio del PdL presented the project of law for MCS N. 1667 on the 18th september 2008.
http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/schedela/trovaschedacamera_wai.asp?pdl=1667&ns=2

The MePs Adriana Poli Bortone (PdL) and Rosario Giorgio Costa (PdL) presented a project of law on the 28th october 2008.
http://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/Ddliter/32633.htm

In the past there were two projects of Cesare Campa (http://www.camera.it/_dati/lavori/stampati/pdf/15PDL0035890.pdf) and others and Pier Paolo Cento and others (http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg15/lavori/stampati/pdf/15PDL0002271.pdf).