them into this situation where bp holds all the cards and bp is letting these workers get sick. back in alaska, roy dalthorp s coughing had ans never stopped, he now has skin rashes. his health is literally crumbling. i m going blind. you think you were poisoned out there? yes. yes. silently poisoned. and that s what s happening to those people down in the gulf. drew is joining us now. drew, health officials are monitoring cleanup workers here in the gulf. we ve seen some of that. are you saying that there was no one monitoring in alaska and there was no follow up either? sanjay, there was something nothing near the type of monitoring that s going on right now in the gulf. and absolutely no follow up. in fact, exxonmobil even
roy dalthorp. right. it s interesting, drew. so much in medicine is predicated on lessons learned. that s how you build knowledge. stick around and listen to this. kevin o shea, the physician in charge of bp s medical response in the gulf, he told me that of the four states more than 1,500 workers have complained of some illness or injury. he isn t aware of any significant respiratory illnesses as of yet. as a doctor, i was curious, what is bp doing to monitor possible long-term health effects from the cleanup? are they taking blood samples that will allow them to track changes in liver or kidney function in workers using corexit, which isn t even used in europe because it s considered too toxic. if someone has been out there, and you ve heard these complaints, i m sure, like i have. they complain of burning in
difficult. sound familiar? congress is trying to make sure that that doesn t happen again, sanjay. i just want to point out the committee on energy and commerce has sent a letter to the chairman of exxonmobil, trying to not repeat these mistakes, asking for any and all health records that exxonmobil might have still pertaining to that 1989 spill and ask the question, really, of government itself, why there wasn t any government follow-up of these workers like roy dalthorp. right. it s interesting, drew. so much in medicine is predicated on lessons learned. that s how you build knowledge. stick around and listen to this. earlier today, dr. kevin o shea, the physician in charge of bp s medical response in the gulf, he told me that of four states more than 1,500 workers have complained of some illness or injury. he told me he isn t aware of any significant respiratory
for six weeks, he worked on a ship that super heated sea water to pressure wash exxon s crude oil off rocks. his photos on board show the steam that he says was an oily smelling mist, permeating the ship where he worked 16-hour days and that is when the cough began. nobody ever checked with us, nobody. they never did a follow up on us, never asked if we ever had any consequences of it. they could have cared less. i m serious. there was no follow up. exxon told us it doesn t know how many cleanup workers became sick. dalthorp never filed a lawsuit or a claim. he could never prove the work he did on the valdez made him sick. exxon did pay to study the health effects of almost every single creature that came in contact with oil in prince william sound. every creature, but one.
i m serious. there was no follow up. exxon told us it doesn t know how many cleanup workers became sick. dalthorp never filed a lawsuit or a claim. he could never prove the work he did on the valdez made him sick. exxon did pay to study the health effects of almost every single creature that came in contact with oil in prince william sound. every creature, but one. from clams and ssels to fish and otters and even deer and bears, but they never studied what this oil was doing to the workers, to the human beings in prince william sound. alaska attorney dennis mestas represented one of the few workers who did sue, but in the process found out that hundreds of workers involved in the cleanup had fallen sick. and you found all of this out