Doctors and experts worry that industrial pollution, which has become a significant factor in the city's water body contamination, might convert hyderabad into another "Minamata."
They discovered several heavy metals and chemical substances were significant causes of various ailments in hyderabad, which they expressed worry about. Environmentalists, scientists, and medical professionals discovered that additional substances, including lead and mercury, were harming locals' health. "In Japan, the strange illness was seen in Minamata. It was brought on by a chemical factory's long-term discharge of mercury into the environment. Later, residents in the area consumed the fish from Minamata Bay. A neurological condition known as Minamata illness is brought on by mercury exposure. In severe cases, the symptoms led to sanity loss, paralysis, and death. At a round table discussion, Dr. K praveen Saxena said that it also had an impact on fetuses.
Dr. D. narasimha Reddy cited Durgam Cheruvu's most recent research, which found 183 chemicals there, as an example of how water bodies were impacted. Pharmaceuticals, herbal pesticides, fungicides, hormones, steroids, UV filters, plasticizers, cyan poisons, and metabolites are a few of them. "Overall, veterinary medications, narcotic pharmaceuticals, painkillers, anti-psychotic, antidepressant, and anti-obesity drugs were found to be the most prevalent components in the lake samples, indicating the discharge of domestic and industrial wastewater into the lake," the researcher noted.
Numerous physicians who practise various branches of medicine, integrative medicine practitioners, homoeopaths, and practitioners of ayurveda, as well as researchers and retired public employees, attended the round table discussion "Toxicity in City" sponsored by praveen at CESS in Begumpet. They discovered that since 1930, industry has produced more than 81,000 synthetic compounds. Lead, mercury, benzene, toluene, pesticides, food additives, and xenoestrogens including BPA, PCB, and phthalates are some of these poisons. The government should recognise the major public health problem of heavy metals and develop suitable remedies in light of the long-term growth in diseases that are known to be related to environmental pollution as well as the ever-narrowing scope of scientific and medical knowledge.
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31/08/2023 09:08 AM