Free treatment demanded for the cancer effected people due to contaminated waters
Sultanpur lodhi 7th February
NGT constituted Supervising committee member
and environment lover sant balbir Singh Seechewal met health secretary Sh.
Satish Chandra and demanded from him free treatment for the people who had been effected with the diseases due
to contaminated waters. Briefing about this meeting Sant Seechewal told that he
has given a demand letter to the health secretary Sh Satish Chandra, which
explains about the people living near the contaminated waters of Kala Sangian
drain , Buddah Nullah and Chitti Bein and are dying with cancer and other
dangerous diseases.
The Punjab Government should give free
treatment to those pollution effected people. Proper drinking water
arrangements should be made for the people residing in these areas. He said
that heavy metals have been found in the contaminated waters and in the sludge
of treatment plants that contains chromium and other chemicals. These metals
have become a big danger for the human health.
Sant Seechewal told that ground water is also
being polluted very fast. Water of Sutlej river has already been creating big
disaster since many decades. Air pollution is so much increased that it has
become difficult to breathe. The people of Kala Sangian drain, Buddah Nullah
and other polluted areas can not leave their homes and lands and go away. In
these areas none of outiders is prepared to marry their daughters in these
villages. Sant Seechewal told that Sh Satish Chandra has assured that he will
seriously discuss these problems with the Punjab Government. Sh. Satish Chandra
said that he along with Sant Seechewal will visit Kala Sangian drain very soon.
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