Parents said that in January, on separate days, four students suffered medical episodes in a classroom -- including fainting and seizures.
Smithtown High School West on Long Island, where several students suffered medical episodes, has been under investigation since 2012.An Eyewitness News investigation has found that the area of a high school on Long Island where several students suffered medical episodes last month is the same part of the school building that has been under investigation by health authorities since 2012.
"We can't be relaxed about this," Jeanmarie Wilson, a retired Smithtown High School West guidance counselor, told Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne."Other colleagues that I worked with very closely had breast cancer, lymphoma, skin cancer, Type 1 diabetes, serious autoimmune issues, recurring sinus infections and neurological issues," she said. "It just seemed to be wherever I turned there was somebody with a chronic illness.
In 2015, health officials with Eastern Suffolk BOCES did another inspection of the building and found no contaminants. They provided the pictures to Eyewitness News which shows a large area of white film on the concrete.STORM DRAIN 2019, STORM DRAIN 2019.2 In 2021, those with the federal National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health conducted their own review, including meeting with affected faculty members, and concluded there was no "evidence of hazardous exposures" and the illnesses among people in G Tower were not related to a common workplace exposure.
The school principal, John Coady, sent a letter home to parents informing them that the district dispatched the senior safety officer from Eastern Suffolk BOCES to check the classroom and that two inspections were performed. Eyewitness News spoke with one parent, who did not want to be identified, who said she had her child removed from the classroom in G Tower following the students' medical episodes.
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