NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
Interagency Meeting
On Actions to Address
9-11 Response Health and Medical Concerns
2:00 p.m. February 14, 2002
Chaired by FEMA Director Joe M. Allbaugh
Topics of Discussion
We need to firmly and positively address the potential and emerging
air quality-related health' and medical concerns of responders and
citizens. Toward that end:
• What have we done?
• What are we doing now?
• What are we planning to do?
Proposed Mission Assignments
1. For the Department of Health and Human Services:
• Quickly implement a comprehensive, national survey of all
federal, state, and local WTC responders and affected citizens, for
the purpose of capturing their post-response medical or health
status.
• Establish a National Health Registry to capture the survey
information, track and identify both emerging trends and
long-term health effects, and to ensure health and medical
recommendations are quickly conveyed to those concerned.
• Establish and identify a list of minimum health and medical
recommendations (tests, treatments, etc.) for WTC responders and
citizens. Recommendations should run the symptomological
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