1J6 - Tel. For the first time a nurse suffering from the illness has won a fight to have the Province's Work's Compensation Board pay for her treatment. Ann Thompson is one of 100 nurses in Nova Scotia suffering from environmental Illness. They experienced memory loss nausea and other reactions while working in Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax. To cope they take vitamins and injections.
Treatment can cost up to five-hundred Dollars a month.
A cost the Workers' Compensation Board would not cover until now. The Appeals Board has ruled Thompson must be compensated for Treatment. But the one hundred other nurses won't automatically get the same decision. David Stewie is head of the Workers' Compensation Board. He says each case is assessed individually.