The Hindu : Endosulfan victims provided treatment

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Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004

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Endosulfan victims provided treatment

Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 19. The Agriculture Minister, K.R. Gouri, said in the Assembly today that the State Government had held two medical camps to treat the victims of endosulfan used in the plantations in Kasargod district.

Replying to a call-attention motion of K.P. Satheeshchandran of the CPI(M), Ms. Gouri denied the allegation that the Government had failed to conduct medical camps in the district.

She said that the Kerala Plantation Corporation had stopped the aerial spraying of endosulfan in the cashew plantations it owns in the district.

She said the practice had been stopped as soon as the UDF Government had come to power.

The Government had appointed a committee under Section 27 of the Pesticide Act to examine the endosulfan issue and on the basis of the recommendations of the Law Department, it had recommended a ban for a period of three months.

She said that medical camps were held on the recommendations of the Dr. Ramanathan panel even though the actual nature of the disease was not diagnosed.

Mr. Satheeshchandran drew the attention of the Government to pitiable living conditions of the endosulfan victims and wanted the government to continue its efforts to reach out to them.

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