Friday, June 29, 2012

Don't let environmental pollution damage our health

Don't let environmental pollution damage our health
Staff reporter Wang JunXiu

Recently, the incident of endangering the health environmental pollution takes place in some places in our country, cause the social concern. China Youth News reporter has interviewed the social researcher of development department of Development Reseach Center of the State Council, at this point " Environment and health management system mechanism are surveyed and studied and appraised " Su Yang, person in charge of seminar.

In 2007, 18 national ministries and commissions such as environmental protection department,etc. issued together <>(hereafter referred to as " action plan ") ,January of 2009, the standard department of the science and technology of environmental protection department entrusts the social development department of Development Reseach Center of the State Council to launch " Environment and health management system mechanism are surveyed and studied and appraised " Study. Through the investigations of two years, the seminar makes overall analysis about environment and health control current situation at present of our country.

Hygiene and department in environment protecting mode will set up cooperating in the mechanism

China Youth News: In " environment and health work " China, hygiene and department in environment protecting mode are playing an important role. Who dominates the two especially?

Su Yang: Because our country " Environment and health work " Make a start in environmental sanitation, the hygiene system has networks from county, township to the village, the health clinics in towns and townships have stronger ability, launch the public health, work even, it is regular too that the governments of villages and towns are patriotic and sanitary to work, and this network has on public health working tradition and manpower that store; But the system in environment protecting mode basically has no input of manpower and materials under the county. So, on the aspect of local government, the hygiene system still plays a leading role.

However, this kind of leading role of the hygiene system does not equate with and make overall plans and coordinate function - -Because of lack mechanism of cooperating, relevant work of department very much difficult to go on and make overall plans and coordinate.

China Youth News: Are not environment and health work paid attention to in the field of hygiene?

Su Yang: In the intersection of hygiene and system, environmental sanitation work in the intersection of public health and work that is not pay attention to relatively, also arrange the upper brass-wind instrument. Both fund input and working performance is examined, has all reflected this. This is because what the Ministry of Health mainly caught is to reflect the key problem of the people's livelihood, such as " the difficulty and high cost of getting medical treatment " Wait, it is basically not mixed and work with the environment healthily.

China Youth News: Then, you think environment and from which pool kind department health work?

Su Yang: About the construction focal point of the system mechanism, should put in the construction of coordinating mechanism more. The environmental pollution of our country of the foundation causes general situation and the characteristics of environment and health control that the health damages, the department in environment protecting mode takes the lead in realizing the pool, high-efficient better: This is because the department in environment protecting mode has restraint means to the pollution sources, can remove the pollution factor of endangering the health from source in time, and Ministry of Health investigate or clinical symptom come on, find pollution problem through public health, usually " Afterwards " (used after an attribute). Environmental pollution leads to the fact disease is usually a result accumulated for a long time, and is often after being ill in the job, so the position of environmental sanitation is behind occupational health for a long time, has not caused the attention.

The place is carried out weakly

China Youth News: Has the local government already set up the environment and health mechanism of management?

Su Yang: Because environment and health work in the intersection of central government and the intersection of aspect and real pool yet, control efforts in administrative resources small the aspect of a lot of local government, it is more difficult. However, on the aspect of government at county level, because the authority is little, the affairs are concrete and the routine cost is not high, in in addition the land range in the county often " Acquaintance's society " ,Coordinate, it works to be by every office nearly, in charge of subjective consciousness and interpersonal relationships that county lead. So long as the intersection of county and leader pay attention to usually, right away apt to reach information sharing, situation that department link. However, this kind is " ruled by men " Coordination often until special renovation take action embody,on work of usual getting more difficult very to be realize.

China Youth News: Are there environment and health emergency processing system now in our country?

Su Yang: Can be said " lack prewarning in advance, the thing aftertreatment is busy " in our present situation ,Not only handle the technical regulation in emergency processing of no set of standards, but also, every department lack information sharing and work, link, system poor random and old, can't control the state of affair to develop in time.

China Youth News: The achievements examination mechanism of the cadre of our country, involve environment and health work at present?

Su Yang: To be strict, central authorities and the intersection of local government and aspect have, set up environment and the intersection of performance and the intersection of examination and mechanism that health work. Though some places list environmental protection in the achievements to examine, often only investigate the performance of emission reduction of regular pollutant such as the chemical oxygen demand, sulfur dioxide on the surface. So local government leader and local leader of Environmental Protection Agency will work focal point in efforts at environmental protection environment and health.

China Youth News: At present, is there special fund input in environmental health in our government?

Su Yang: Central government aspect set up special the intersection of fund and channel, implement " the the intersection of Huaihe River and the intersection of basin and cancer integrated control " When event, have arranged environment and health survey special fund through environmental protection department, in rural the intersection of environmental renovation and special fund, to have environment and place of health problem slope, wait a moment. On the aspect of local government, there are no environment and health work special fund channel at present.

The environment should be accelerated while legislating healthily

China Youth News: According to your investigation, which areas environmental health problem of our country is more outstanding at present?

Su Yang: Find in the investigation, rural environmental pollution - -Especially the environmental pollution of the countryside settlement, it is apter to cause the health to damage. Under making social structure at two yuan, the city not merely has priority on the economic growth, in the social development ' Including environmental improvement) Have and have priority too, rural pollution control is relatively insufficient in investment.

China Youth News: How is the healthy legislative state of environment of our country?

Su Yang: Environment and health problem involve a wide range of knowledge, influence long time, moreover, it is complicated to pollute with the causality while damaging, without the overall, distinct laws and regulations, it is very difficult to make sure to administer the state according to law at work and cause the health to damage and deal with to pollution in accordance with the law. At present, our country's environment and health field do not not merely have special laws and regulations, in current environmental protection, rule of the hygiene and relevant department, do not consider the needs of environment and health work enough, this is a great loophole of an aspect of laws and regulations.

Because has not stipulated directly in the current law environmental pollution causes the health to damage the clause of the dispute, department and the people's court, when it causes the health to damage the dispute to deal with the environmental pollution in environment protecting mode, having concrete rule can be followed. In addition, environmental pollution leads to the fact it is great that the health damages the difficulty of technical appraisement of causality, put to the proof difficult, the intersection of lawsuit and the intersection of cost and higher factor, weaken effectiveness of law in safeguarding the public health rights and interests greatly.

China Youth News: Our country passed " evaluation assessment of environmental impact " in 2002, how is the implementation of this law?

Su Yang: Our investigation finds, the environmental impact of a lot of places is appraised to go through the motions. Cadmium contamination accident such as Liuyang of Hunan Province of emergence of 2009, Changsha Hunan and ring of chemical plant comment, propose, include cadmium to be dangerous and firm and waste with treatment of waste water handling requirementing in the report, also there are no raw materials, firm waste, " Three is defended " The measure, there are no sewage treatment facilities, even so, still comment and confirm through the ring. Moreover, local administration for industry and commerce comment, examine and approve beyond the range in in environment protecting mode the intersection of department and ring, still violate legal provisions and approve this enterprise for running the sale of indium, cadmium, plumbous dreg concurrently without authorization, cause this enterprise to drain cadmium into the environment through routes such as the firm and waste, waste water,etc. in the course of producing, selling etc..

In addition, some places lack the scientific appraisal of the respect in environment protecting mode during planning, the distance of hygiene shelter of enterprises can't get the assurance. But comment system, carry out, do one's best, influence not large than ring, place lead pay attention to economic development only, and neglect environmental protection.

China Youth News: Change the current situation, should proceed with what respects?

Su Yang: At present, our country has already issued <>,Have launched " National key area environment and health ad hoc survey " ,These two concrete tasks compare with " action plan ", there are clear financial support and examination goal, can work until pool launch environment and whom health work stress hand from central to local these, use project to bring along the work, advance the institutional improvement. Such as passing <>Implement the task, in order to investigate that drives management, make the relevant department of the local governments at all levels finish " hard " In the course of the task, participate in environment and health work, and thereby improve managerial ability.

The health problem concerns the people's vital interests, it is very important that information is disclosed. Should disclose environment and health information that the government knows in the appropriate range progressively, can improve public environment and health consciousness on one hand, lead the public to supervise like this, while finding suspicious environmental pollution causes the health to damage the question, can reflect in time, on the other hand, help the administrator to discover the problems, take the corresponding measure early too, popularize environmental pollution cause emergent knowledge, counter-measure that health damage and protect way,etc. pointed, can also lead the media to report, help the public to form correct environment and health idea.

Don't let environmental pollution damage our health

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