A man who was formerly an administrator at a hospital located in DeSoto, Mississippi has filed a second lawsuit against his former employer. Rick Salgueiro filed the first of the two lawsuits back in May when he was allegedly fired for making a threat to publicly announce concerns regarding health and environmental quality surrounding a construction project at the DeSoto Regional Health System Hospital.

According to Salgueiro the hospital failed to obtain an asbestos analysis form the state Environmental Quality Department prior to allowing work to be done on the hospital, the hospital failed to obtain proper building permits, and waste was being hauled off of the premises by a contractor that was unlicensed to perform such work.

Salgueiro allegedly made complaints regarding the improper handling of the project and was fired from his position with the hospital in December of 2007. It was shortly after that the complaints were investigated by the Environmental Quality Department and asbestos was discovered in the building.

Asbestos exposure has been known to lead to the development of a number of often fatal diseases such as mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer. It typically takes anywhere from twenty to fifty years for such diseases to show on tests which means that those diagnosed are in many cases left with very limited pallative treatment options.

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