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The municipal group of PODEMOS in the City Council has insisted on the need to solve the serious health problem suffered by the municipality, especially in the areas near the industrial poles, such as La Aljorra and the towns near the Valley of Escombreras, the own center of the city, whose air is getting worse, and those other areas with highly degraded soils, with heavy metals and even radioactive materials, such as the cases of Llano del Beal or the lands of El Hondón and Torreciega2E

As a result of knowing another study that shows the relationship between contamination by heavy metals and cancer in the municipality, the purple formation has requested that the Ministry of Health take action on the matter and ensure the completion of epidemiological studies to the populations affected by pollution, extending them to other areas and not only to the villages of the Sierra Minera.

They will also ask the SMS to launch a specific campaign so that in the most affected areas, citizens can request the corresponding tests or tests to control their health, and thus prevent possible diseases caused by pollution2E

The municipal group has recalled that the known evidence does not allow either quiet or silence, as these new data are added to the already published study of the Environmental Health Unit of La Arrixaca, a report linking pollution with the increase in cases of childhood cancer in the areas of the municipality near the industrial poles.

Also, from the municipal group announced that they will ask their deputies in the Congress and the Regional Assembly to ensure greater funding for the continuity of medical-scientific studies that are already underway, as well as the promotion of new and future research that deepen in the serious environmental and sanitary problem that Cartagena is living.

Likewise, CARM will reiterate the need for exhaustive controls on the emissions of polluting companies, and that the population be informed in a didactic, complete and transparent manner about the quality of the air we breathe.

On the other hand, the councilors of PODEMOS have reminded that Cartagena is a municipality with one of the highest tropospheric ozone indexes in the country (according to the latest report of Ecologists in Action, which is prepared based on data from the Ministry itself), to which must be added the contaminated soils, the unbreathable air by the industrial complexes, a predatory mining whose consequences still suffer the Llano del Beal, the terrible and silent genocide of the asbestos, the motor traffic and a deregulated cruise tourism that contribute to generate greater emissions, and in case something is missing, the tragedy of the Mar Menor and the general deterioration of the coastline ... That is, a string of cases that are not casual and that reveal the failure of the short-term and unsustainable economic model applied in the municipality, a model that goes hand in hand with null control by administrations.

From the municipal group have announced that they will present new initiatives in the three administrations, to reverse this situation while demanding compliance with the agreements already approved at the municipal and regional level, agreements such as those referring to the Air Quality Board, the Plan of decontamination of the Sierra Minera or the increase of the measuring stations in the municipality.

Finally, since PODEMOS have declared that it is outrageous that no one assumes political responsibilities, since the inaction (and in certain cases the open complicity) of the administrations is taking many lives ahead.

Source: CTSSP