translated from Spanish: Pesticide poisonings, still uncontrolled in Michoacán

Ya Morelia, Michoacán.- Because 195 pesticide poisonings were recorded in the past year alone, the State Commission for the Protection of Health Risks (Coepris), in coordination with the Agency’s Single Union of Workers Decentralized Public Health Services of Michoacán (SUTOPDSSM) and the National Union of Health Workers (SNTSA) carried out the course “Good use and management of pesticides”.
In this context, the owner of the Coepris, Rafael Torres Mandujano commented that the necessary knowledge of the good use and management of pesticides, Triple Washing and the final disposal of empty containers are taught, this to promote protection to the health of the vectors that are directly and indirectly exposed to health risks.
He noted that last year 195 poisonings were recorded, the main ones orally and mixed, i.e. they fall product on the eye or skin. The most common cases were recorded in Zitácuaro, Pátzcuaro and Uruapan, so it is necessary to reinforce the actions.
SuTOPDSSM leader Javier Maldonado Torres detailed that 600 vector workers of the SSM are currently on going for a long-standing update.
It should be remembered that according to local congress reports, in the last five years, 1,592 cases of pesticide poisoning have been reported in the state, most of which have been men aged 25 to 44.
The main causes of pesticide poisoning in Michoacán according to Coepris data are by repackaging a product, leaving it available to children, keeping left at home, being inside the crop when fumiga the plane; pesticides are used for something other than the product is not intended or manufactured. Fumigation without proper equipment; bombs that start to have spills. With the same clothes from work they arrive and hug their children and intoxicate them, among others.

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