Environmentalists and physicians on Saturday urged the government to take immediate initiative to check electromagnetic radiation of mobile phones and mobile network towers.
They made the urge at a seminar on ‘Mobile phone and mobile network tower: impact on environment and public health’ organised by Bangladesh Poribesh Andolan at Dhaka Reporters Unity.
They said that mobile phone users as well as others were living with high radiation all the time and it would be dreadful for human body.
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh senior scientists Monirul Alam presented the key note paper saying that modern technology made life easier but brought curse on human being though very slowly.
‘Electromagnetic radiation is a new curse of modern technology and it brings worst form of environmental pollution which is invisible’, he said.
Mobile phone users live with this radiation all the time, he said.
He said that not only mobile phone but also computer, television, electric lines spread electromagnetic radiation.
Electromagnetic radiation is the source of many diseases including insomnia, Alzheimer’s, infertility, headache, abortion, high blood pressure, heart diseases, brain tumour, blood cancer and fatigue, said the scientist.
Radiation is not only harmful for human
being but also for biodiversity, he said, adding that mobile network towers should be set up at safe distance from human being.
Columnist Syed Abul Maksud said that an expert committee needed to be formed to examine the impact of electromagnetic radiation on human and biodiversity.
He said that mobile phone manufacturers needed to invent mobile phones which would emit low radiation.
Health and Hope Hospital managing director Lelin Chowdhury said that need people friendly technology was needed for human being.
The government should take immediate initiative to check radiation level of all imported mobile sets, he said.
Paribesh Andolan vice-president M Firoze Ahmed, also Stamford University vice-chancellor, its secretary general Md Abdul Matin and member secretary M Sirajul Islam Molla also spoke at the seminar.
-With New Age input
