Urgent debate on environmental health
Dr Robin Stott FRCP, consultant physician and lately medical director of Lewisham Hospital, London, has studied health and healthcare around the world. He believes he has the answers to these and many other questions pertaining to our ailing ‘health’ services.
His is one of the principal speakers at a public meeting held by the Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association (IDEA) at Our Ladies Hospital, Crumlin, on Saturday, February 14.
His address on sustainability and health will inform the urgently-required public debate on the structure and delivery of our health services.
Each of us, including newborns, have up to an estimated 400 novel chemicals in our bodies.
What of the combined effects now and in the future? What are politicians doing to protect us and to prevent further contamination? The other speaker, Beverly Thorpe, has campaigned internationally for many years to try to improve this situation, and is here to try to move the Government during its EU Presidency to get some urgently-required action on this issue.
Philip Michael MICGP,
PRO,
Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association,
Millbrook Medical Centre,
Bandon,
Co Cork.
