EcoLur
For already several years a real boom of cancer diseased can be observed in Armenia, while the most awful thing is that it is observed among the children. According to the statistics, since 1990 the number of the children with cancer diseases in Armenia has increasd by 4 times!!! In 1990 the indicator of cancer diseases among the children up to 18 years old made up 17.5 (out of 100,000). In 2007 this indicator boosted up to 42.8, while in 2013 the indicator made up 66.3.
Our government ignores this fact and doesn't reveal the reasons why our children get ill and die from cancer, though the world has already tracked these trends. The least requirements for our government is to track this background, which promotes these diseases. For example, the composition of air in environmentally unfavorable areas? What are sources of emissions? What is the composition of water? Whether products and water contain admixtures, which are recognized as carcinogenic?
It’s common knowledge that such elements as chromium, cadmium, lead, arsenic, as well as radioactive radon are carcinogenic and mutagen promoting to cancer diseases. In different concentrations these elements exist in the soil, water and agricultural products in the areas located next to open pit mines and tailing dumps. Nevertheless, none of the mining projects so far mentions the composition of the industrial wastes to detect toxic elements of first-class hazard.
We call for repeating the experiment made by activist Anna Shahnazaryan and to make our government, especially those cabinet members, who are distinguished with their rejections of the proposals on environmental measures, drink the water, breathe in the air and eat the agricultural products from Geghanush, Syunik, Sotq villages, Kapan and Qajaran towns, Alaverdi and Akhtala.
December 19, 2014 at 12:00