Tower trouble: Now, Parle dentist gets cancer
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013, 11:23 IST
| Agency: DNA
A 30-year-old dentist in the fourth stage of
brain tumour has joined the list of residents afflicted by cancer allegedly due
to radiation from mobile phone towers.
Andheri resident Rakesh was diagnosed
with brain tumour in April, barely two months after getting married, and today
he is in the fourth stage of the disease with a mere 14 months to live.
Distraught,
his wife Apoorva said, “His only wish was to be able to continue working in his
clinic (in Vile Parle), but I won’t allow him to go there till the mobile phone
tower is removed.”
“My life is seeing the end even before it could begin,” she
added.
The building in question is Hina Kunj on Church Road where Rakesh used
to spend more than 12 hours a day. The mobile phone tower is located on the
first floor of a telecom major’s power bill collection centre which is next to
Hina Kunj.
Opposite the centre lies a children’s home called
Missionaries of Charity and St Xavier’s high school. Authorities at both places
have appealed to have the tower removed.
Whether mobile phone towers cause
cancer is an issue that is being debated the world over and hasn’t been proved
yet. However, Hina Kunj already has three residents, besides Rakesh, who have
been diagnosed with breast, uterine and colon cancers.
The area’s residents
had objected to the construction of the tower in 2008 by jointly sending a
letter to the telecom major, to which they did not receive any response. Over
the years, and recently, they have been aggressively pushing for the tower’s
removal with support from the nearby educational institutions and civic
officials.
On July 29, a civic notice was put out, which directs officials at
the bill collection centre to remove the unauthorised tower within 15 days.
Officials at the telecom company said they will look into the matter.
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