Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
 


Environmental

Cost of pollution is $ 14 per second, says study

This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.





The costs of pollution, for the first time, were mapped outside the borders of Sao Paulo. Study obtained by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paul shows that are spending $ 14 per second (U.S. $ 459.2 million a year) to treat respiratory and cardiovascular sequelae of victims of excessive fine particle - the smoke polluting diesel. The value is dispensed by public health facilities and private six metropolitan areas of the country

The same survey produced by the Laboratory of Pollution from USP and six federal universities, shows that in addition to Sao Paulo, breathe air disapproved by the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO) regions of Rio, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Recife . "Pollution is no longer the privilege of Sao Paulo and the impacts are direct cardiovascular health of the Brazilian," says Antonio Carlos Chagas, president of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC). For the scientific essay, 8169 people are hospitalized each year with heart problems attributed to fine particle.
Research in Sao Paulo stimulated production in other cities. Cardiologists Evandro Mesquita, Universidade Federal Fluminense, began to cross the data of arrhythmia and heart attack in days marked by excessive pollutants. When the Heart Institute of SP (Incor) made similar test last year found 11% increase in occurrence of death from heart failure. In Rio, the research shows that the USP is 1434 heart patients admitted per year.

The report had access to the study of the civil action that the public prosecutor of Sao Paulo moves against Petrobras and 13 automakers seeking damages for victims of pollution. According to the promoter of the Environment MP, José Isamel Lutti, the indemnity amount will be "parameter" search. In the hospital, were also calculated deaths regions: 11,559 people over 40 years (31 lives per day). Petrobras, through a spokesperson, said it was not notified of the action, filed in March this year. The information is the newspaper O Estado de S. Paul.



Source: O Estado de Sao Paulo

This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.

Important:
The JurisWay site does not interfere in the work provided by doctrine, why only reflect the opinions, ideas and concepts of their authors.


  Subjects list
 
  Copyright (c) 2006-2009. JurisWay - All rights reserved.