• Fire forces hospital's evacuation. The Royal Marsden on Fulham Road loses its top floor including surgery threatres to a devastating fire. All 79 in patients and about the same number of out patients plus about 800 staff were evacuated. This is one of the world's premier cancer research and treatment hospitals.

1. Fire forces hospital's evacuation. I used to live in this area for over five years and know it very well especially the area immediately surrounding the Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton hospitals which are side by side. It's a terrible thing to see this kind of fire break out in any hospital but even more tragic in a cancer and research hospital like the Royal Marsden. I've explained why I say this in an Email I sent to BBC News24 this afternoon a copy of which is provided below.

BBC News Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 20:26 GMT

Fire forces hospital's evacuation

The fire has destroyed much of the top floor

Patients and staff were forced to flee onto the streets as a major fire swept through a leading cancer hospital.

The fire broke out at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea, west London, at 1320 GMT but is now under control.

Much of the roof was destroyed and a number of operating theatres were badly damaged by the blaze, which was tackled by up to 125 firefighters.

Two patients and two hospital employees were treated for the effects of breathing in smoke.

The hospital said two patients were having surgery at the time of the evacuation but were safely taken off their anaesthetic and ventilators and were recovering at a neighbouring hospital.

Fire forces hospital's evacuation

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Subject: Stupendous coverage of the Royal Marsden fire. The Royal Marsden does have a surveillance technology connection too.
Date: Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:40
From: Gary D Chance
To: news24@bbc.co.uk

You did an extraordinarily good job of covering this fire which was of great interest to me due to a former peripheral association. [I used to live not far away from the Royal Marsden for five and one-half years and was a frequent visitor to several pubs in its immediate area.]

I can bring the Royal Marsden into my correspondence about the surveillance technology abuse against me and will show my understanding of just how important I considered the Royal Marsden.

The cancer surgery I had for a melanoma on my right shoulder in August 1979 included the removal of all my lymph nodes under my right shoulder. The surgery saved my life as I am still here almost 30 years later writing about it. [The proof is in the pudding.]

There was a side effect from the cancer surgery, however, in the form of lymph oedema in my right arm. When there is the slightest injury to the cells in my right arm for whatever reason (injury/infection), the immune system goes to work immediately with its residue drained away by the lymph system which is largely gravitational but assisted by the lymph nodes. [More accurately, in the case of infections the immune system does not work in this area very well as I've experienced.]

Without the lymph nodes the excess immune system fluid collects in my right arm. This was a problem from time to time during the 1980s and 1990s, but I was able to keep it under control by taking care of myself. Although some assistance was tried with a prothesis device like a Probst stocking, this did not work well and forced the lymph fluid down into my hand rather than up my arm.

When the surveillance technology was started in mid-August 1998, I got an immediate lymph oedema reaction from the radar imaging device being used against me from the flat above. Not only did my arm balloon, but my hand went beyond any swelling that had occurred in the prior 19 years.

After a couple weeks when this did not recede as would normally be the case with an injury/infection, I went to my Portland Road GP. I knew that there was nothing that could be done but wanted to see if there happened to be something that I did not know. There wasn't, but she did offer to refer me to the Royal Marsden with the caveat that there would be a waiting list.

I declined because I knew that lymph oedema could be quite serious for some with disabling consequences. I knew that these people really needed what treatment was avaliable which at that time was mostly centred around massage therapy.

I did not want to occupy a place on the waiting list or take valuable time from those who were dealing with this problem especially when I knew that the cause of the problem [surveillance technology abuse] would keep it occurring no matter what was done short of creating mechanical lymph nodes [which I wonder is not in the future at some point through stem cell research].

Up to that time my right arm had not gotten to the point of being disabling or causing pain. I could live with it and spend my efforts trying to address the problem at its source: the abuse of surveillance technology namely a radar imaging device. My GP was not the professional to address this abuse which was causing the lymph oedema. There was no point in wasting her time either.

The electromagnetic radiation from the radar imaging device damaged the cells throughout my body. It just so happened that the immune systems response for my right arm was not complete. While other areas of my body were able to drain away the lymph fluid properly, my right arm and hand accumulated the lymph fluid and could not be removed because the injury source was present 24/7 and went on indefinitely as it has turned out to the present day.

The was a key factor that helped me confirm the exact nature of the surveillance technology being used against me at its start in mid-August 1998. [Equally important was that this had not occurred prior to this time.] I was far more worried about my eyes and actually noted this in two separate letters to the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner in October and November 1998.

I knew what the Royal Marsken was all about having lived near it for over five years until May 1996. I had a great deal of respect for its cancer work and did not want to become an out patient there unless I had a real need.

So far I've been right. Cataracts occurred and were diagnosed in both eyes at the Western Eye Hospital in December 2000. My right arm has remained swollen as it was from the start in mid-August 1998 since I have always been subjected to electromagnetic radiation from one source or another due to the abuse being carried out against me from the surveillance technology.

There were bigger problems to be addressed as it turned out. I have also kept track of the probable recurrence of skin cancer by visits to the Dermatology Out Patient Clinic at St Mary's Hospital. In fact, malignant Bowen's disease (another skin lesion) had been diagnosed from a biopsy taken in June 1998 just a couple months before the surveillance technology abuse began which put me at serious risk under the circumstances. There is a very serious duty of care problem here.

I knew that there were more serious problems to be addressed with attention as long as the surveillance technology abuse continued against me 24/7. I focused on getting it stopped but have failed so far all these years. I would hate to develop cancer as a result of the abuse of the surveillance technology which would add to the NHS burden and my already experienced cataracts from this source.

I have made every effort to make certain that I used the NHS properly and did not use its services when it was not appropriate while other people were in a greater need than myself as I knew at the time in 1998 with regard to the lymph oedema.

So, I am quite stunned and saddened to see the Royal Marsden fire today since I am a cancer survivor for almost three decades and would not like to see that treatment benefit denied to others. Cancer is curable. I am living proof of that.

Thanks again for your great coverage of this fire. I just hope that the Royal Marsden will get back to full activity as soon as possible.

Gary

PS BTW those using the surveillance technology abusively against me could care less about the personal injuries and damage they cause me. In fact, they exploit the possibility by making every effort to render the situations which have developed worse. They are deliberately creating problems for the NHS by using the NHS as a weapon for their own criminal objectives. This is a tragic waste of resources and worse than a fire because this has never been "put out" for the past nine years and almost five months.

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