About Asbestos Action Tayside
Asbestos Action (Tayside) is a Scottish charity that has been set up to assist sufferers of asbestos related diseases. We are a voluntary, not-for-profit organisation set up to provide practical support and advice to those who have an asbestos related disease. We want to ensure there is a local service in the East of Scotland to respond to any queries that a person diagnosed with an asbestos condition may have.
The charity was formed by a group of people from the East of Scotland who either have an asbestos related illness or have cared for someone with an asbestos linked condition.
How We Can Help You
- AAT have a 24 hour answering service that enables us to respond to your needs as soon as we possibly can.
- Serious illness often leads to financial worries. From our office in the centre of Dundee we will assist you in the task of making benefits claims that you are entitled to and are your right.
- We have connections with law firms who specialise in personal injury claims who are able to advise you on civil compensation claims against employers or past employers.
- If you think we can be of any help to you please contact us on 01382 225715 or alternatively e-mail us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Did You Know?
- Someone dies every 5 hours from mesothelioma in the U.K.
- There were 1,628 deaths from mesothelioma in 2000 in Britain.
- The annual death toll will rise to around 2,000 by 2010 and will remain above 1,500 until
- There are 33% more deaths from mesothelioma than from cervical cancer.
- Deaths from mesothelioma have increased ten-fold since 1968 in the U.K.
- There will be over a million deaths in Western Europe by 2035.
- The disease can take between 30 to 50 years to develop following exposure to asbestos.
- The greatest risk group are men born between 1945 and 1950.
- Mesothelioma cases have increased three-fold since 1990.
- Scientists predict that by 2025, 25,000 Scots will have died from asbestos related diseases; this in a country with only 5,000,000 people.
The above facts appertain to just one of the asbestos related diseases that afflict those exposed to what was once described as a "magic mineral" that turned into a killer dust.
Compared with diseases such as breast cancer, there is little in the way of public campaigning over the condition known as mesothelioma nor is there more than a fraction of the funding of research into it. Ken O'Bryre, former head of the British Mesothelioma Interest Group, who now works in St James's hospital, Dublin, is scathing about the lack of research money poured into the disease compared with say, breast cancer. "People think it will pass away. It has often been perceived as a disease of older working-class men and historically they tend not to get the best deal."
Our organisation aims to support those suffering from this and other dreadful conditions associated with asbestos and bring the above shocking facts to the attention of the greater public.
