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Improve roads

Improve roads

This refers to the report `Integrated approach needed to promote tourism: Collector' ( The Hindu , Sept. 28).

Ooty has always been one of the sure destinations of tourists and the number of visitors to this hill station is as high as 25 lakh a year. As rightly pointed out by the Nilgiris Collector, Santosh K. Misra, tourism plays a vital role in ensuring the economic well-being of this hill station and to sustain the steady flow of the tourists an integrated approach is called for.

He hit the nail on its head when he said that the hill station should develop the capacity to tempt the tourists to make repeated visits.

But therein lies the rub in the form of precarious roads, which make the travel risky. Top priority should be given to improve the road condition and the rest will follow.

P.U. Krishnan,

Ootacamund.

Quackery & politicians

Your paper of September 26 has a news item on Salem Indian Medical Association demanding an end to quackery. I read recently in a local paper Herald Sun that a 44-year-old mother of two children died at a Darwin ozone clinic after receiving caesium chloride injection. She was undergoing ozone therapy there after being referred to that clinic by a doctor at a Melbourne cancer clinic. She died after first developing paralysis of the left side of her body followed by spasms on the right side. The clinic billed her for A$ 44,000 and after her death asked her husband to pay a further A$ 25,000 towards final settlement. Her husband refused to pay the balance and has gone to court. Melbourne Doctors' Association has asked authorities to take steps to close such ozone clinics. If such quackery can thrive in a highly advanced country we can imagine where will Indians be in this situation. Political support to quacks keeps them going in India.

S. Sunder,

Australia.

Mosquito repellents

There has been a controversy about the presence of pesticides in Colas and some states have banned them. But no one seems to bother about the impact of increased use of mosquito repellents, particularly after the chikungunya outbreak. If they can kill mosquitoes en masse certainly they should have some effect on people as well.

It was found from a sample survey that people who use mosquito repellents get strain in eyes, sore throat and dry lips. Will scientists and the department of health tell the public about the long-term effect of using mosquito repellents?

V.S. Venkatavaradan,

Salem.

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Ootacamund.

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