Sunday, April 26, 2009

Pigpens of terror among the population of Helwan

Pens, 35 kilometer from the town of May Pens, 35 kilometer from the town of May

كتبت هايدى عبد الوهاب - ماهر عبد الواحد Heide wrote Abdel Wahab - Maher Abdel Wahed


Affect a state of panic after HELWAN dwellers maintain their knowledge of the decision to allocate 238 acres for the transfer of pig farms, maintenance should not be further from the pollution and epidemics, particularly since the pig is one of the most animals, which carries the result of bird flu contamination by birds and handling of dead birds.

ف Initially, the pole of the President, Major General Ismail, a local council of the governorate of Helwan to take all necessary action to prepare for the transition of pigs, and stresses the pens after 35 kilometers from the town of May, and reassure the public that the fence of tree would be imposed on the region.

And the feasibility of a tree on the fence, the Fatuh Dr. Darwish Chairman of the Central Administration of Preventive Medicine, General Authority for Veterinary Services, it is useless to impose a fence around the tree, pointing to the tree that the fence has nothing to do with the prevention of transmission, it is an environmental solution Balhzair is the only exit from the residential block and subject to stringent control, because the birds can penetrate the barrier tree and the movement of the infection.

The pig is a time-bombs, and the movement of infection result in a fast contact with birds and feathers, Dervis acknowledged that the Department of Preventive Medicine in the past failed to reach the random spots, which the pigs are raised, and it was difficult to calculate the number of educators and knowledge of the breeding places of random places that are kept by the .

Darwish adds that the threat of swine flu virus in Mexico is close to Egypt, there is no disease in the world is in isolation from Egypt, pointing out that human beings can be a means of transmission of the disease.

For his part, the beauty of the safety of the President of the local council of the city of Helwan, the Council rejected the presence of the pig farms, and stresses the lack of distance from the residential block, pointing out that the land allocated to the pens away and a nearby one another on the city May 15, explaining that the city is not in the Helwan a need for more pollution and pigs, which transmit diseases and epidemics.

Asserts, citing Abu-Ghali, a member of the local district of Helwan, the rejection of the existence of pig farms in the county, saying that the pig breeding are environmental and health disaster is useless or unnecessary, only the transmission of diseases and epidemics.

In sharp contrast to the Ministry of the Environment called for a prompt transfer of pig farms and garbage processing activities of the governorates of Cairo, Giza, to the exclusion of the residential blocks to the site, which has been allocated in Helwan governorate, according to the presidential decree No. 338 of 2008, which was allocated 238 acres in the valley east of Aldbab City May 15, in order to achieve the following environmental and health and disease does not appear until the swine flu in Egypt.

The Ministry of the Environment has proposed a site for the settlement of a garbage-processing activities and the raising of pigs, and after coordination with the National Center for Land-use planning and the Governorate of Cairo to conduct a comprehensive study on the demands and needs of the transport of pig farms, including the relocation of housing in the region, as has been proposed site in collaboration with the Ministries of Housing and health, local development, agriculture, as well as the General Authority for Urban Planning and the General Authority for Urban Communities, and the General Authority for Veterinary Services.

George noted that the site was chosen in line with all the conditions required for this purpose in terms of proximity to services and facilities, as well as proximity to a group of pig breeding and the existing distance from the residential block, and the area enough to compile the existing pig farms in the Greater Cairo, as well as appropriate as possible for those who will be transported to these sites.

Stated that there were 9 sites for the breeding of pigs, the province of Greater Cairo facility Nasser, cow belly, and May 15 and Kottamia and Torah, Helwan and Almatmdip and, in addition to the two Balbragel and palm estate.

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