Sewer Mayor Lazaro Mellado, reiterated the Director General of Public Health of the Region of Murcia, the need to know whether the background information that the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, was necessary to reconsider the completion of a study epidemiological in our town, as a continuation of the interview held in Murcia last October 1.
To Sewer Mayor Lazaro Mellado, no doubt to say that, "I want clean air for the city in which I live.'s Why, since the occurrence of the last episodes of bad odors in the month of June, likely occurred in our municipality, all were made known, not only in writing, but with interviews point to the Directorate General for the Environment, being the last two most recent contacts, last September, twice. well as the Directorate General of Public Health, on October 1, to show again, as we did in July 2010, the concern that the City Council, we have. This concern has always aimed to be able to respond to incidents during the summer and returned to our neighbors a message of peace, why, he requested that Public Health again from assessing the desirability of an epidemiological study in our municipality. "
All this, taking into account, "our whole agreement-that of all local groups in the City-July 2010, he had his answer the Directorate General of Public Health, dated October 18, 2010, in which We transferred the report which concluded that it was not necessary at that time further epidemiological study of our town, different surveillance systems and epidemiological studies compiled by the Epidemiology Service continuously ".
In this report by the Chief of Epidemiology, indicated that "The Epidemiology Service maintains different surveillance systems of health (mortality registry, cancer registry, notifiable diseases, health surveys, etc..) That monitor health status of the population of the region and its municipalities and periodically performs epidemiological studies on different aspects of health. Among the studies that have been developed, this was said in October 2010 - most recently by municipalities is the birth life expectancy. According to the study, life expectancy in Sewell is similar to the regional average (80.1 and 80.0 respectively). "
Sewer Mayor Lazaro Mellado, has also suggested to the Director General of Public Health, given that "today we are in different scenario, in terms of time and the problems that have been suffering Sewer neighbors, is what I have repeated itself again meet with the background information that the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, by these occasional bouts of bad smells should reconsider carrying out this Epidemiological Study in our town ".
From the Mayor and from the area of ​​our City Environment have not relented in keeping many meetings and contacts were accurate, not only with the regional administration, but also with the Clean Air Platform itself, who were heard before the full Extraordinary September 6 and in their meeting with the Mayor and Councillor for the Environment, a few days later, on September 19, where they released the actions taken by the government team until then and overtake the scheduled meetings with the general directions of the Environment and Public Health.
However, and in line with the meetings that have been maintained throughout the year, in order to get more control over episodes of odor, the mayor has again had an impact on the desirability of conducting studies We provide accurate epidemiological Sewer map.
Similarly, it has also asked to be informed of the background that can be provided to the Community Services on diseases that may have more relevance in our environment, especially those that can be directly related episodes pollution that have taken place in recent years.
From the Mayor is held constant attention to everything that is related to odor episodes, which upset both citizens and those who have made a matter of preference.
As reported in the last plenary session in September, giving instructions and in the month of July to the technical services of the Department of Planning and Environment to identify all industries are likely to generate bad odors or where it finds a increase in the emission of pollutants.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla