11 minutes agoTwelve thousand cases of sick children in Obilic, contaminated air
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)In the main center of the family medicine in Obilic, during 2017, 12 thousand cases of child visits have been recorded. While 87 thousand is the total number of cases presented at this centre within this year due to high-level pollution [...]
While 87 thousand is the total number of cases presented at this centre within this year due to high-level air pollution, as a result of KEK thermal power plants.
According to doctors, patients are facing various diseases, such as lung cancer, chronic diseases, and respiratory diseases.
QKMF Director Haki Jashari has said that compared to past years, 2017 there has been a sharp increase in patients.
The chief executive of the Agency for Environmental Protection, Ilir Morina, has said that especially in the Kosova B Term power plant, pollution values are very high.
He says overcoming is an end to ten times every month.
While the Director for Environmental Protection in the Obilic Community, Arben Berisha, estimates that the environmental situation in this municipality is not good at all, but hopes that with the implementation of the Law for Obiliki, the situation will improve and this municipality will have benefits.
The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, through the Environmental Protection Agency, has predicted that drastic measures will be taken in the next year, and that coal will be banned for no use at all.
But by then residents of this area will face various health problems.
