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 Post subject: Yeroskipou cancer fears
PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2009 4:52 pm 
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RESIDENTS of Yeroskipou, who fear they may be getting cancer because of numerous problems in the area, are calling on the local council to contract a scientific expert to carry out conclusive research.

Their concerns are being taken seriously by local councillor and resident Panicos Skordis, who said he would be asking his fellow councillors and the mayor of Yeroskipou, Tassos Kousapos, to consider the request at the next council meeting.

"We don’t have any scientific data to back up the residents claims, but I do agree that it would be a good idea to obtain some. It’s my aim to bring over a specialist on the subject, who would be able to provide information one way or another, which would inform us all if there were any dangers,” he said.

According to Skordis, there were many factors contributing to the concerns including the presence of phone antennas, high voltage cables, metal water pipes and a plastics factory.

"I would say we are seeing numbers of around five to ten new cases of cancer in the area every year,” he said.

"I have lived in Yeroskipou all my life and this seems to me to be an increase. Obviously the population has grown and this factor will affect the total percentage of instances, but we will only know for certain, if these are random cases, after a study is completed.”

The councillor said that a high voltage electricity cable running along the north side of the town was being removed and relocated to a non-residential area over the coming days.

A similar cable to the south of the municipality will also be moved and placed underground at the same time as the building of a new road connecting Kato Paphos to the airport.

"It would be better if it wasn’t there at all,” said the councillor. "But there isn’t another way of supplying electricity to the area."

In addition, a plastics factory in Yeroskipou, has sent an official response to a letter from the municipality demanding they move, confirming they would do within the next five years.

The plastics factory has long been a concern of locals, who fear emissions from the building, may affect their health. "If they don’t comply with these terms, we will take them to court,” said Skordis.

Former Yesoskipou resident Stella Papamichael said she moved away a few years ago.

“But my family still live there. I am concerned that things such as the antennas and the plastics factory may adversely affect the health of my elderly mother,” she said.

"She is fearful as well, and told me a number of her friends have developed cancers over the last couple of years."

Skordis said he personally knew of a number of recent cases of cancer in both old and young people living in Yeroskipou. It wasn’t a single type of cancer but there had been several cases of stomach and brain cancer, as well as Leukaemia, he said.

"I want to assure the residents that I will do everything I can to ensure a recognised and conclusive study is undertaken, and hope it will find there and no problems," he concluded.





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