Zadroga Bill Funds Won't Be Available For Those With Cancer: Report

First responders at Ground Zero in Manhattan who are suffering from cancer may not get access to a multi-billion dollar health care fund created by the Zadroga bill, the Daily News reports.

According to the paper, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released a report on Tuesday saying that studies conducted so far have failed to find a compelling link between instances of cancer and work done at the Ground Zero site.

The Zadroga Bill, was designed to ensure that safety personnel, including police officers, EMTs and firefighters received health care for injuries or illnesses sustained because of the work done at Ground Zero.

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand spent much of her first few years in office fighting for the passage of the bill, and released a statement Tuesday saying she hopes that NIOSH will undertake another study soon to try and establish a link between cancer and the work done in the aftermath of the attacks.

“Responders and their families continue to suffer physically and financially from these deadly cancers, and the longer they have to wait on a cancer determination, the longer our 9/11 heroes will continue to suffer without proper treatment or compensation,” Gillibrand said. “For many responders, this is a matter of life and death and I urge you to do everything possible to speed up this process.”

According to Gillibrand, NIOSH is not planning to conduct another review until ‘early to mid-2012.”