Committee on Environment and Health, Pacenza: work done yesterday ... - CN24TV

“It was a very important work that carried out yesterday by the Joint Committee on Health and the Environment because, thanks to the hearings it conducts, it was possible to put on record a very comprehensive picture emergencies and risks that contaminated sites are producing in Calabria with possible repercussions sull’incolumità of citizens. “

So the president of the Healthcare Commission Salvatore Pacenza about the meaning and purpose of the joint meeting of the III and IV of the Commission in the course of which, yesterday, were audited delegates from many environmental organizations, representatives of the Departments of Health and Environment of the Regional Government and the five provincial health agencies, the mayor of Croton, Peppino Vallone, and general manager dell’Arpacal, Sabrina Santagati.

“We deliver this map – says Mr Pacenza – the regional administration because, within the limits of competencies and subject to the powers that the law gives, it can take action on concrete actions for the recovery of the health of the territories polluted, and thus to safeguard the health of citizens. You need to take action as soon as possible on closed landfills, sites contaminated by industrial production and on all other situations that yesterday, in the course of the hearings, were evaluated under a scientific, cultural and political.

regard to the remediation of contaminated sites, the Environment Department official Hyacinth Ciappetta reported that, using funding provided by the CIPE number 60, has completed the remediation of 18 sites for which will be brief published the final draft, which have been characterized 33 high-risk sites and identified sites with low and medium risk covered by the resources of the Plan for the South, with the launch, in particular, of one share of reclamation area of Crotone.

The same official also announced that it has started the race for the identification of those responsible for the monitoring of water bodies and that all the actions of the Department are aimed at reducing environmental pollution, as well as the incidence of cancer. The manager of the department Health Brancati listing the actions taken to protect the life and physical well-being of citizens, stated that, on special Asbestos Unit (made by resolution in 2012), were activated by an operating unit July 31, 2012, at the hospital in Crotone, concerning the onset of mesothelioma, with surveillance activities.

Brancati has also stated that it was initiated, in coordination with the department, a unit on the monitoring of risks on occupational cancer. We will now – ends Pacenza – knowing how to make good use of all the information gathered during the hearings yesterday and assess, together, majority and minority, which are the best actions to be put in place so that we can proceed in certain times in solutions concrete steps to restore the health of the territories and health of citizens. “