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Dangerous health harms of cement factories in residential areas

Serious health effects of cement factories within residential areas

Allergies and lung and chest infections are the most prominent diseases <Allergies, lung and chest infections are the most prominent diseases Factories affect vegetation and prevent families from enjoying gardens within neighborhoods

Factories affect vegetation and prevent families from enjoying gardens within neighborhoods

Negative effects on prices and neighborhoods are not suitable for healthy living.

<Factory dust reaches up to 5 kilometer axis.

Investigation /

South of Riyadh, specifically in close proximity to the neighborhoods of Al-Aziziyah and Khalidiyah, many ready-mixed concrete and cement factories are spread over the residential neighborhoods ... which did not respect good neighborliness, as they innovated and created new forms of harming their neighbors.The sun hardly rises every morning without those factories spewing toxic fumes to perfume the neighborhood students before they go to their schools, passing through the employees as they head to their work to visit the remnants of that smoke to visit the houses, forming an environmental disaster, not to mention the exhausts of trucks and the sounds of their alarms. Although recommendations were recently submitted by the Municipal Council to the Riyadh Municipality to relocate these factories that caused suffering to residents near them, pointing out that these factories have licenses from the municipality and therefore the Municipal Council thought of providing alternative lands for them away from the population. The Council also issued recommendations to oblige cement and gypsum factories in southern Riyadh to international standards after many complaints from residents of nearby neighborhoods.

Numerous health centers

<Residents in the area complained about what they called (the greed of the factories and limited attention to the principle of profitability), disregarding the rights and duties incumbent upon them towards the surrounding areas and citizens living in them, explaining that the principle of afforestation to clear the air, despite its low costs, was within narrow limits and has recently faded.

Citizen Rams Al-Shehri, an old resident of the neighborhood, stresses the importance of the responsible authorities” attention to the demands of the neighborhood residents affected by the principle of prevention before injury. Al-Shehri says: ”The damage of factories is clearly visible, and this is evident from the frequent spread of civil health centers specialized in treating chest diseases and allergies in the neighborhood, not to mention the increased congestion and inconvenience around the clock in the streets and entrances of the neighborhood by factory truck workers loading and unloading even outside the official working hours of the factory, noting the negative impact of the factory's presence on residential and commercial land prices in neighborhoods near the cement factory, denying that the factory's cement plant is a major contributor to the negative impact of the factory's presence on the prices of residential and commercial land in the neighborhood. next to the neighborhoods.
Citizen Abdulkarim Al-Youssef refers to the impact of dust flying from the factory on the vegetation in the neighborhood and says: ”One of the most serious negatives of the cement industry is the bad impact on the environment and the threat to the surrounding area through the discharges released by industrial units from gaseous and liquid waste that have a negative impact on vegetation, such as the accumulation of a thick layer of cement dust on tree leaves, which leads to poor production of crops, in addition to the risk of human poisoning. ”People are slowly dying in front of the sight of the official authorities without taking any measures to save them, as the neighborhoods near the factory have turned into an infested area in which allergies and asthma diseases spread at frightening rates that exceed the rates of areas far from the factories, as well as the lack of cleanliness in the streets and houses of the neighborhood.” He explains, ”It is rare to find a house in the neighborhood that does not complain about dirty yards because of the factory dust.”

Al-Yousef adds

The role of environmental associations

<For his part, Mr. Abdullah Al-Sahli, Director of Rong Al-Omran Real Estate Foundation, explained, ”Although the pollution in the neighborhoods adjacent to the cement factory has reached dangerous levels, this has not affected the prices of residential and commercial land in the neighborhoods, pointing out, ”No one denies the role played by the Riyadh Cement Factory in the development of the city of Riyadh, but in the development of the Kingdom as a whole, especially at a time when there was no other, and this is indisputable and agreed upon by everyone, but the issue is the negative aspects and even catastrophic and environmental damage it has caused and caused damage to the lives of citizens, especially the neighborhoods surrounding it through gas and dust escalation In the midst of these damages, we did not find anyone moving a finger to address the presence of this factory, which has encroached on the urbanization, and has become in the middle of it.”

Mr. Omar Saleh Al-Ali <Mr. Omar Saleh Al-Aubthani, owner of Al-Aubthani office, says: ”The truth is that the cement factory is one of the environmental pollutants that cause many issues for the residents living around that factory, if we notice that environmental associations were able to close these factories in many developed countries and we, unfortunately, are still accepting ”Officials should take even simple measures to alleviate the pressure on residents, as large factories have always blamed small factories and barns for polluting the atmosphere, which is a pretext for them to continue harming citizens.”

Lung cancer

<For his part, Dr. Adel Ahmed - Khalidiya Clinic - confirms that the percentage of patients with asthma and allergies is constantly increasing compared to the surrounding neighborhoods and explains, "Cement dust is an irritant to the respiratory system and inhaling it for a long time leads to pulmonary ossification, chronic bronchial catarrh, as well as bronchial asthma, expansion of the lungs, and in many cases, lung cancer. These diseases increase in areas where the cement industry is concentrated, whose fumes may reach up to 3 kilometers axial, and this disease increases significantly in children at a rate almost double that of adults, and medical studies confirm that carbon monoxide leads to poisoning, while sulfur dioxide for cough and allergies, while ground nitrogen has a carcinogenic effect, while fumes lead to suffocation. According to some studies, dust from cement factories causes extensive environmental damage to land, agriculture, seabeds and rivers.
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