AREVA announced on December 6 the creation of OSRA (Health Observatory for the region of Agadez). One year after setting up the Health Observatory of Mounana, Gabon, the new Agadez facility marks a forward stride in the process initiated in 2007 by AREVA and its partners. Just like the Mounana observatory for the mines operated in Gabon, OSRA is to monitor the health of former workers exposed to uranium at the AREVA mines in Niger, as well as monitoring the health of the local population. It will be devoted to delivering transparent information to the Niger authorities, former employees and surrounding communities, with the results of health monitoring carried out around the mining sites operated by AREVA.

In Gabon, where more than 40 consultation sessions have been held since the Observatory started its work in October 2010, nearly 400 former workers of AREVA subsidiary COMUF have had a physical examination, a blood test and chest X-ray. The process continues with the examination of all workers identified and will be renewed every two years. The process will be exactly the same in Niger and for subsequent observatories set to be deployed around the other mining sites of the group. If cases of illness attributable to occupational factors are identified, the cost of the corresponding healthcare would be borne by AREVA in the same way as for French medical coverage.