«This little tube that runs over my face is connected to an automatic respirator and allows me to breathe forcefully, but it also allows me to be here. I got mesothelioma, a very bad cancer, linked to the presence of asbestos in the air."
The Rai journalist Franco Di Mare, guest of Fabio Fazio on Che tempo che fa sul Nove, revealed his serious illness. And he explained the causes:
«It is caught because you breathe in asbestos particles without knowing it and once released into the air the fiber has a very long shelf life, up to 30 years, and when it appears it is too late. To say that this is where hope ends is not true, because science always moves forward."
The story arrives on the day dedicated to workers who are victims of asbestos, as recalled by Fazio, who also underlined his guest's regret towards those who disappeared when he learned of the disease: «The whole of Rai, all the management groups» , added Di Mare, «I understand that there are union and legal reasons, I was asking for the service record, the list of places where I have been to find out what could be done. I can't understand the absence on a human level, people who I used to address but who denied each other on the phone. I find only one adjective: it is repugnant."
(Unioneonline)