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The president of MC Jesús Giménez recalls that the results of the study announced in El Llano have not been made public and there are areas of which we have no studies in several decades despite knowing exposure to pollutants.

Last May, the Autonomous Community announced that it was initiating an epidemiological study to evaluate the effects on health in the population of El Llano del Beal due to exposure to mining waste.

The Ministry of Health, through the General Directorate of Public Health and Addictions and the Murciano Health Service, conducted a study on a sample of 184 couples of children and mothers from the towns of La Union, El Llano del Beal, El Estrecho and Portmán, belonging to the exposed area, and to another 184 pairs of participants in the towns of El Albujón, La Aljorra, Pozo Estrecho and La Palma, outside the area of ​​the mining area.

Participants were chosen randomly and invited to be part of the study.

This program, which they called "emblem", advanced and, in August 2018, the Ministry announced that it had already completed the collection of samples and that by the end of the year they would disseminate the results.

The president of MC has announced that his training "prepares an initiative to demand from the Ministry that these results be made public, as well as carrying out two other studies in risk areas that have not been evaluated for decades, and that if they have been, the results have not been disseminated. "

Jesús Giménez has specified that these zones are "La Aljorra and the surroundings of the contaminated belt of the city, which constitute San Ginés, Torreciega, Sector Station, Los Mateos, Santa Lucía or the Media Legua".

The spokesman of the Cartagena training recalled that "in the fields of El Hondón, ZINCSA and Peñarroya is known that there are heavy metals, phosphogypses and asbestos In the case of the first, for 17 years that closed the factories, the population has been exposed to these pollutants, as happens in the deputation of La Aljorra, where this 2019 will be 30 years since the General Electric plant was installed. "

Giménez has advanced that "our councilor Francisco Calderón will take the initiative to the Plenary, which is the result of multiple contacts with neighbors and associations in these areas that are complaining to the Autonomous Community without success, because we Cartagena need to know the causes of some serious diseases have such an incidence in our municipality and address this public health problem. "

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena