KARACHI: Garbage-burning posing health hazard to people
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Dec 28: The rising trend of burning garbage at roadsides and garbage dumping sites by health workers of different Town administrations is causing pollution and posing a serious health hazard to the people.
Poisonous fumes and noxious gases emitting from burning garbage often causes serious breathing problem for asthma patients.
On the one hand, various roads, streets and even main thoroughfares of the city often remain littered with garbage and other filthy material, creating unhygienic conditions and an ugly scene for passersby and, on the other, the trend of putting garbage on fire at their dumping sites has become a big nuisance to the people.
A visit to various localities of the city will show that garbage, which is dumped in dust-bins and roadsides, is not removed for weeks together by health workers.
Motorists passing through main Jehangir Road often see heaps of garbage at different places of its footpath.
Similarly, the so-called green-belt which bifurcates PECHS Block 2 with Lines Area had been turned into a garbage dumping site. Health workers have made it a habit to burn the garbage.
People residing on either side of the green-belt complained that when sweepers burn garbage, a suffocating environment was created all around their locality, causing breathing problem for them and their children.
“When garbage is put on fire we are forced to close doors and windows to stop them smoke from entering our houses,” deplored an elderly person of the locality.
Another resident said the one of the worst affected were those visiting the nearby mosque and those residing in the nearby houses as they were made to inhale smoke.
Filthy environment can also be seen on the islands of Federal B-Area’s Sharea Allama Ibn Hasan Jarchavi and Tufail Shaheed Road, as heaps of garbage usually remain littered there.
One can also see garbage littered at different places of both the service roads of main Shahrah-i-Quaideen — from Society office to the Shahrah-i- Quaideen-Sharea Faisal traffic intersection.
Similar complaints have been received from residents of FB Area’s Block 14, Block 19 (Al-Noor Society) and Liaquatabad.
