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Cancer villagers seek help
By Zhang Xuanchen |
October 13, 2010, Wednesday
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VILLAGERS are seeking government help in a coal-mine county in southwest China where residents blame lung cancer caused by polluted air and drinking water for claiming nearly 250 lives every year.
With lung cancer killing an average of 11 people per village every year, the 24 villages in Xuanwei County, Yunnan Province, were called "cancer villages" by local residents, reported Yunnan.com, a local news website.
In 2006, local health authorities launched a campaign of cancer prevention and treatment among villagers in the worst-hit Laibing Village, which reported 31 deaths last year, the highest in the county.
However, residents told reporters the mortality rate keeps hiking, with other villages overtaking Laibing Village as the deadliest.
They blamed fast economic growth for increasingly taking its toll on the health of the county, where more than 30 mines are located with an annual production of millions of tons of coal, copper and iron.
With lung cancer killing an average of 11 people per village every year, the 24 villages in Xuanwei County, Yunnan Province, were called "cancer villages" by local residents, reported Yunnan.com, a local news website.
In 2006, local health authorities launched a campaign of cancer prevention and treatment among villagers in the worst-hit Laibing Village, which reported 31 deaths last year, the highest in the county.
However, residents told reporters the mortality rate keeps hiking, with other villages overtaking Laibing Village as the deadliest.
They blamed fast economic growth for increasingly taking its toll on the health of the county, where more than 30 mines are located with an annual production of millions of tons of coal, copper and iron.
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