FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 9, 2007
Graniteville health screenings start Feb. 15
AIKEN – The Aiken County Health Department and Aiken Regional Medical Center will begin a second round of health screenings Feb. 15 for Graniteville residents affected by the Jan. 6, 2005 chlorine spill, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control announced today.
“A representative from Aiken Regional Medical Center will call those who have signed up with either the registry at USC-Aiken or Aiken 211 to schedule appointments for the screening,” said Marge Heim, regional systems administrator with DHEC’s Region 5 in Aiken. “Those individuals within a half-mile of the derailment and spill will be first to be scheduled for an appointment. Others will be scheduled as we extend the area of those who may have been exposed.”
For questions about the health screening, call Marge Heim at 642-1608 or Ann Lancaster at 643-4034, at DHEC’s Aiken County Health Department.
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For more information:
Thom Berry – (803) 898-3885
E-mail – berrytw@dhec.sc.gov
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