NEW YORK — Federal health officials are dragging their feet on adding cancers of the uterus to a list of 9/11-related health conditions — outraging survivors fighting to have the illnesses recognized.
“They’re going to delay this as long as they can,” retired Con Edison employee Cheryl Hall told the Daily News. Hall worked at Ground Zero for weeks following the terror attacks and paid for her uterine cancer surgery earlier this year without any federal assistance. “Part of me feels they’re hoping we die before they have to take care of us.”
After countless calls to add uterine cancers to the 9/11 illness list, the federal World Trade Center Health Program proposed adding them to its list of health conditions in May. The proposal went through a 45-day public review and was expected to be added to the list by the beginning of June.
