Khulna bone mills pose health hazard
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Our Correspondent
KHULNA, Nov 03: Three bone mills in the Labanchara sluice gate area in the Khulna city are posing a threat to environment and the public health. The mills, Khulna Bone Mills, Sattar Bone Mills and Jalal Bone Mills, stand on the main road at places where thousands of people, mostly low-income people, live.
The processing of bones fills the air with sickeningly bad smell in the area, the local residents complained. They said when bones are boiled, they reek of obnoxious smell, posing a threat to the public health. A number of people of the area are suffering from diarrhoea, the residents said.
Laws stipulate that factories posing threat to the public health cannot be set up at places where people live. The factory people said they had valid papers and they had set up the factories at a time when no people lived there. Kamal Hossain, a general practitioner, said most old men of the locality had been suffering from asthma and chronic gastritis.
An official of the Department of Environment in Khulna said it has sent notices to the owners with warning against polluting environment and endangering public health.
KHULNA, Nov 03: Three bone mills in the Labanchara sluice gate area in the Khulna city are posing a threat to environment and the public health. The mills, Khulna Bone Mills, Sattar Bone Mills and Jalal Bone Mills, stand on the main road at places where thousands of people, mostly low-income people, live.
The processing of bones fills the air with sickeningly bad smell in the area, the local residents complained. They said when bones are boiled, they reek of obnoxious smell, posing a threat to the public health. A number of people of the area are suffering from diarrhoea, the residents said.
Laws stipulate that factories posing threat to the public health cannot be set up at places where people live. The factory people said they had valid papers and they had set up the factories at a time when no people lived there. Kamal Hossain, a general practitioner, said most old men of the locality had been suffering from asthma and chronic gastritis.
An official of the Department of Environment in Khulna said it has sent notices to the owners with warning against polluting environment and endangering public health.