by El Mostrador 6 October, 2020
In a letter signed by 135 health professionals across the country, they requested “a moratorium on the deployment of 5G technology, as part of the bidding process that began on August 1 of this year, until it is certain, of that does not pose a risk to human health and the environment, based on the precautionary principle “.
More than 130 doctors in Chile signed an open letter addressed to the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, in which they call for “urgent measures to be taken against the non-implementation of 5G technology to protect public health.”
In the letter signed by 135 health professionals across the country, they requested “a moratorium on the deployment of 5G technology, as part of the bidding process that began on August 1 of this year, until it is certain, of that does not pose a risk to human health and the environment, based on the precautionary principle “.
“The biological effect of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, as is the case with 5G technology, has been extensively investigated by independent scientists in the industry and thousands of studies reliably demonstrate the negative biological effects on human and human health. environment, “the statement said.
Health professionals clarify that they are not against science and new technologies. However, they argue that “what worries us is that they do not take health into account as a priority, considering that
there are alternatives compatible with it. Technology must be at the service of people and not the other way around, in order to have cutting-edge technology that is safe at the same time. ”
Proposals
Doctors also launched a series of proposals. The first has to do with “generating a moratorium on the current bidding process for 5G technology until there is (independent) scientific certainty about the health security that this would entail.”
They also proposed “to create a Committee of Experts (mainly health), which takes a year to analyze
independently from economic and political groups, the scientific evidence on the issue of exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radio frequency waves, in the public health and assess the risks from a scientific point of view that the deployment of 5G technology could bring. ”
Finally, they requested “that said commission be inter-ministerial with a representative of the Ministry of Sciences (led by Mr. Andrés Couve C.), a member of the Ministry of the Environment (led by Ms. Carolina Schmidt Z.), a member of the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications (led by Ms. Gloria Hutt H.) and experts from the Medical College, among others, in order to achieve a qualitatively optimal, coordinated work with an impact on public policy “.
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