Social activist and Magsaysay award winner Prof Sandeep Pandey speaking at a conference at a private university said government has taken a position on nuclear radiation that it does not affect people even as India has 22 such reactors..
He said this is the case even as there remains no data with the government while very few private individuals understand the problem in hand.
He showed 2 studies to underscore his point, one on Rajasthan and another on Jharkhand by IIT Kanpur and Indian doctors for peace and development respectively.
There remains confusion about safe level of radioactivity, he added.
Exposure to lowest of levels causes genetic damage, mutation, effect on offsprings among others.
In the IIT study it shows women and children are the worst effected, there are untoward pregnancy outcomes, congenital deformities, infant deaths among other observations.
This even though the people in the proximity of the area studied has more income. In Jharkhand’s Jadugoda the study was carried out on the Santhal, Munda and Ho tribes.
He laid emhasis on the fact that UCIL CMO Dr AN Mullick steadfastly maintained at a stretch that all was well, whereas truth was different.
Across globe risk of risk of lung cancer was high due to adron. Infertility, still birth, abortion, congential deformation, chronic lung diseases, cancer as a chronic cause of death and reduced life expectancy were elements of bother.
Contract workers have been exposed to the dangers of radiations.
Arthur L. Frank, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health from School of Public Health at Drexel University spoke about “Asbestos related diseases with a focus on women”.
In his brilliant deliberation, he lay emphasis on the fact that Asbestos, which is a naturally occurring silicate mineral, can lead to malignant and non-malignant diseases even at a low level exposure to it. The disease is more prevalent in males however where more women are found in the workplace and in case of household contaminations it’s the women who are affected most often.
Jennifer A. Taylor, Associate Professor from the same university shared her findings regarding gender impact, safety behaviours and outcomes in the fire services. According to her as far as safety behavior is concerned, women may have a positive impact on their work practices and injury outcomes.Though further research is advocated to quantify these gender differences.
Among the other eminent speakers were Chief scientist Herbal research lab, legal advisor, senate of Belgium Dr Dominique Dassonville, Prof Karen Burstein University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA, Dr Arthur Frank, Prof and Chair Emeritus Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, Prof BC Das Chairman Hargobind Khurana Chair Professor and Amity Institute of molecular Medicine and Stem Cell Research lab AUUP among others.
A special panel discussion was held which was partaken by eminent faces like Jayant Krishna, Executive director and COO, National Skill Development corporation, GOI, Head of Sanatkada Madhavi Kukreja and Dr Sandeep Pandey social activist.
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