Environmental awareness and Pollution Risks on Public Health
In order to create a state of awareness of the dangers of pollution on the individual and society, the University organized an awareness seminar entitled "Environmental Awareness and the Risks of Pollution on Public Health" under the auspices of Dr. Moawad Al-Khouli, President of the University,and under the chairmanship and presence of Dr. Adul Rahman Qurman ,Vice President of the university for Education and Student Affairs.
In his speech, Qaraman stressed that pollution lies in the pollution of minds and that the reform of the natural environment comes in the reform of the intellectual, cultural and moral environment. Therefore, we need to restructure moral and educational values to raise societal awareness among the members of society and develop their aesthetic sense.
Dr. Yasser Atta Shehata, a lecturer in the Public Health Department, spoke about the risks of biological pollution, which are divided into infectious diseases and non-infectious diseases, which are the most dangerous and which occur as a result of chemical and radiation pollution. These diseases include: immune diseases, cancer, fetal malformations and other diseases of the respiratory system and heart. The study of the World Health Organization that the European and American countries are the most productive of pollutants and least affected by the Arab countries are the most affected by the pollution due to lack of awareness and the absence of a culture of preserving the surrounding environment and dealing in the spirit of the group and not the individual.
Dr. Eman Shukr, lecturer in the Department of Nursing of Family and Community Health in Menoufia Nursing, pointed out that recognizing the problem is the beginning of the real solution and that the environment suffers from quantitative change in the components of the environment. She noted that 40% of agricultural land suffers from pollution, by 50%, the rate is normal and influential negative for the Egyptian economy as a result of water pollution resulting from more than 34 industrial properties and waste exchange in the Nile River.
Dr. Amal Shehata, Rapporteur of the seminar and the Under-Secretary of the Faculty of Nursing for Community Service and Environmental Development, concluded the seminar with a series of recommendations, the most important of which is the concern to change the behavioral pattern of the members of the community to the positive pattern after pollution of soil, air and water by not using excessive pesticides and replacing them with natural materials and not dumping dirt and educate the farmer not to greed and the use of natural fertilizers Bmadladtha and rationalize the consumption of electricity, water and food.