Dr. Cemal Mert, Public Well being, Setting and Human Rights Officer of the Turkish Cypriot Medical Affiliation (KTTB), invited the Ministry of Well being to clarify the microbiological and chemical analyses of the seas and swimming pools to the general public intimately in a daily and clear method.
Making a press release on the difficulty, Mert emphasised the significance of normal sea and pool water analyses and clear bulletins to guard public well being, and argued that the ministry's failure to take passable steps “triggered severe issues and suspicions.”
Mert said that sea and pool water analyses are routinely carried out yearly between April and October and shared with the general public intimately, however this yr the analyses weren’t carried out till June.
“Earlier than the vacation, it was claimed that water evaluation was carried out on 102 seashores in an unconvincing, superficial and undetailed method and that the outcomes had been protected for public well being,” mentioned Mert, reminding that in a press assertion they made on June 26, they invited the Ministry of Well being to be extra delicate and meticulous about repeatedly analyzing sea and pool water and sharing the outcomes with the general public intimately.
Recalling that the ministers liable for well being and the setting signed a well being protocol on June 27 and dedicated to the press that analyses can be carried out as soon as per week and shared with the general public, Mert mentioned that no assertion had been made concerning the evaluation outcomes regardless of the two-week interval, and mentioned, “We’re protesting this example.”
Mert famous the next:
“Moreover, it’s an unacceptable negligence that nothing was mentioned in regards to the pool waters in the course of the protocol signing ceremony.
Minister of Well being Mr. Dinçyürek claimed that an essential step had been taken within the nation for well being and setting. Nevertheless, regardless of two weeks having handed for the reason that protocol was signed, the failure to share new evaluation outcomes, the late announcement of 102 seaside water analyses for June that had not been beforehand introduced, the absence of signed and authorised State Laboratory studies of their appendixes, and the existence of contradictory leads to the evaluation outcomes are unacceptable negligence when it comes to public well being. We invite the Ministry of Well being to repeatedly and transparently disclose the microbiological and chemical analyses of the seas and swimming pools to the general public intimately.”
-“ It’s not detailed, safe and clear”
Mert famous that the protocol signed by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Tourism, Tradition, Youth and Setting Fikri Ataoğlu and Minister of Well being Hakan Dinçyürek foresaw the monitoring and evaluation of sea water high quality, and said that the statements made after the signing ceremony weren’t passable to the general public.
Mert made the next statements:
“It’s apparent that the mandatory measures to guard public well being haven’t been taken and the outcomes haven’t been shared transparently. The truth that the duty of conducting and asserting sea and pool water analyses, which is actually assigned to the Well being Ministry’s Main Well being Providers Division by regulation, was transferred to the Setting Ministry with a frivolous protocol already paperwork the Well being Ministry’s chapter and incapacity to meet its responsibility. The outcomes of the ocean water analyses carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism and Setting within the Kyrenia, Güzelyurt and Lefke areas on July 10 are additionally not detailed, dependable and clear sufficient to fulfill the general public.”
Mert mentioned that they are going to proceed their work on public well being as a union and proceed to comply with this problem carefully. Mert invited the Ministry of Well being to be clear and fulfill their authorized tasks within the steps of taking samples, delivering the samples to the laboratory, performing the analyses and explaining the leads to element, and to cooperate with civil society organizations, particularly KTTB, with the intention to regain the misplaced belief on this regard.
