'Cancerous' cell phone towers panic Parsi
Colony
Monday, Apr 22, 2013, 8:00
IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
6 cancer cases in 3 yrs, residents call
meet to devise strategy.
Freny Kavarana, a resident of Shree
Samarth building in Dadar’s Parsi Colony, says that she feels “horrible” when
sitting in her room. Operated for a cancerous tumour in her stomach last year,
Kavarana and three other people in her building blame cell phone tower
radiation for the disease.
Despite minister of state for communications and
information and technology, Milind Deora, stating that there is no proof that
radiation from cell phone towers is hazardous to health, citizens continue to
be apprehensive.
After six cases of cancer were reported in the past
three years in the neighbourhood, the residents of the Parsi Colony are a
panicked lot. They have put up banners and distributed handbills in the area,
inviting people for a meeting on April 28, protesting against the cell phone
towers on buildings in the vicinity.
Kavarana, who is still undergoing
treatment post her surgery last year, says, “I can’t prove it, but people like
me — who have suffered from cancer — have a strong suspicion that it is due to
the cell phone towers that came up around here a few years ago.”
Aditya
Gandhi, whose mother was detected with ovarian cancer in 2010, says, “Our
window opens up to cell phone towers which are less than 35 metres away, on the
third floor terrace of the adjoining building.”
Some residents have
spent large amounts of money putting up radiation films to obstruct the
radiation emitted from these towers. Avaa Jassawalla, who lives in Boman Lodge
on Dr Ambedkar Road, spent over Rs1.5 lakh to put up such films two months ago.
“I am unable to enjoy the view from my penthouse apartment, only because of the
towers that are just 15 metres away,” she says.
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