The people have attempted a lot of diseases since human beings existed. The disease which people found a cure, the diseases which people couldn’t find a cure and the diseases which one difficult to be cured. Cancer is member of difficult to be cure.
Cancer known medically as a malignant neoplasm is a broad group of various diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth so pollutions cause mutations in human.
The reason of cancer spread two groups. One of these groups is hereditable efficient. So it becomes from family’s disease cell. Second one is about environmental factors. Such as X-ray exposure, some chemical substances, malnutrition habit, vırus and air pollution increases. In Marmara region’s Kocaeli and Bilecik County have the most. Our project is about Kocaeli-Dilovası.
Prof. Dr. Onur Hamzaoğlu who is the head of the health of public department has announced that they identified heavy metals in the mothers’ milk and in babies’ faeces.
These heavy metals give a lot of harm for human body so it makes people disease. For example bronchitis, asthma and cancer. Lung cancer is the biggest one and seems Dilova. As a precaution a lot of association was found.
At Dilovası district there are 50.000 habitants. There are 167 factories majority of them are heavy metal and heavy chemical factories. And these factories empty their waste product to the nature. The head of ecology and health association Mrs. Ercan Keser said that the most important problem not only the workers but also habitants are under effect of dangerous disease because of not proper usage of treatment plant and lack of inspection, every single day the number of people having cancer increasing. According to Turkish of ministry of health, 2004, the percentage of dead caused which is the percentage of dead caused which is declared by world health organization which is %11 percent. But in Diloavası İt’s %33. This huge amount can be decreased, by increasing awareness of public about result of environmental pollution to their health.
As a first step we visited Dilovası. We delivered leaflet which is having information about environmental pollution and health we did reportage with people who is working for municipality mukhtar and village clinic. And I understood that all the people are complainant as us. As a solution most of people said that only filter factory is enough. This is because illiterate people don’t realize one more issue.
We made a reportage, who said that ‘I didn’t breathe.’ At the same time a-there are a lot of asthma and bronchitis. Most of people think that the factories should stay away from habitants at 3 km and shouldn’t throw away their mess to nature. But factories didn’t answer people’s calling.
When people die because of lung cancer, the factories going on their action. Let say stop not to die innocent people anymore. We should take some measurements when we still have time. Otherwise we may regret to be careless in the future.
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