Record View: Protect us.
NOW we learn that deep vein thrombosis can hit passengers on short-haul flights, not just trans-global trips.This condition is, quite simply, deadly. This toll of vicims is a scandal.
The expereience of latest victim Lynn Adams cannot be repeated - for the sake of the tens of thousands of Scots flying abroad each year in search of two weeks relief from the stresses and strains of everyday life.
Families pay thousands of pounds and put their lives and health in the hands of the airlines - who too often treat them as cattle.
The Aviation Health Institute say the public must take more precautions.
But that merely shifts the responsibility from the massive companies who ferry us about overcrowded skies.
It's time the airlines used more of their massive profits to research DVT - and safeguard their most precious commodity. Us.
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| Title Annotation: | Leader |
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| Publication: | Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) |
| Date: | Sep 10, 2001 |
| Words: | 139 |
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