Its small, House collapsed in Ahmedabad 71 years, Naran Mehra cuts a desperate figure.
The old power plant worker is ill after years of exposure to asbestos which is used as an insulator in the workplace.
"When it would blow my hair turn white. Naran Mehra
Unwittingly, he brought the danger at home. His wife Sevita Devi used to shake dust of asbestos from clothes before wash them and now it is also affected by the disease of. With no money for appropriate medical care, the couple have given up hope for the future.
Asbestos in India disease is sous-diagnostiqués and especially not recognized as a health problem. But with the multiplication of plants of manufacturing and use of asbestos and products trade import asbestos for construction products booming, the India has become a new frontier for which is to ensure a dramatic, devastating health crisis.
The Indian asbestos workers have little safety equipment and if they contract a respiratory disease such as asbestosis or mesothelioma cancer a few are paid compensation.
And, unlike many developed countries, where asbestos products have been banned, the India cannot get enough of what is called the roof of the poor. It is alarming to a first nation in the world that provides the things. Canada uses asbestos itself, but it is selling the cargo in India. Business is therefore intense Canada is breathe new life in its industry mining asbestos to strengthen its exports.
"It is equivalent to the Canada being a provider of death around the world." Our country is an exporter of a lethal substance, and we enjoy it … unless our Federal Government '. Professor Amir Attaran, University of Ottawa.
Asbestos industry is slope million in a campaign to ensure the India and convince other developing countries which can be on the market than white asbestos or chrysotile, is safe.
"This particular asbestos has not been known to give cancer, so far" Abhaya Shanker, Director General, Hyderabad Industries
Journalist Matt Peacock spent decades to investigate and discover many scandals of the health, caused by asbestos. In fact, a large part of his report helped to raise awareness about the dangers of asbestos in Australia. He met some shocking scenes in his career but the India dramatic asbestos has shocked even this experienced corresponding.
"I started covering the history of his trail of death in Australia thirty years ago.". Return to the House and in other developed countries, that the problem now is whether how get rid. But it seems the India is racing headlong to repeat the same mistakes on a large scale.
Source: corresponding overseas, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
