Letters | Sunday, 15 February 2009

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Mobile antennas linked to cancer

I refer to article under the heading ‘Lija Mayor calls for antenna removal’ appearing in MaltaToday (18 January).
I recall a similar case at the UK and the mobile company acceded to remove the mast from a block of flats after seven residents were struck down by cancer.
Three have died and the other four have battled the disease since the two masts were erected on the roof of a five-storey block, which had become known locally as the Tower of Doom.
Other residents (110 of them) in the area not so close, also complained of terrible headaches and other ailments which they blame on radiation from the masts.
The company agreed to remove it after a long campaign by residents and pressure from local authorities.
A resident said: “The masts are bound to be doing something. I get terrible headaches and have started suffering from Meniere’s Disease where I lose my balance. I am worried about the children on the estate.”
The WHO guidelines dismissed the risk of the masts despite other evidence which has found that they are harmful.
A spokesman for the company Orange said the company takes health and safety very seriously.
I beg the local company who erected such masts to remove them for the health and safety of all the Lija residents. I congratulate Dr Ian Castaldi Paris for his persistence in all matters that appertain for the good of his constituents.

Dr Herbert Messina Ferrante.
Ex-Local Councillor
Attard

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