The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
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NGOs send letter to EU asking for support to phase-out mercury use in dentistry
EU — HCWH, the European Environment Bureau, the Health and Environment Alliance and the Zero Mercury Working Group asked the EU to send a clear message of support of phase-outs of mercury from dentistry at the EU level and globally.
In a letter, the organizations pointed out that the most cost-effective and environmentally responsible solution to the dental mercury problem is its rapid phase out, since there are a range of affordable mercury-free alternatives as well as the environmental pollution from dental amalgam and health consequences from indirect exposures.
Read LetterHealth Care Without Harm is an international coalition of more than 500 organizations in 53 countries, working to transform the health care sector worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment. Visit the HCWH website for more information.
