Georgian PM says some Georgian regions facing environmental challenges
The coordination council headed by Prime Minister Bakhtadze operates through the 2018-2022 National Environment and Healthcare Action Plan. Photo: Press center of the government of Georgia.
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The lead level in children’s blood and water quality were the main topics of the Intersectoral Coordination Council session headed by Georgian PM Mamuka Bakhtadze on March 26.
Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze said some Georgian regions are facing important environmental problems adding that water quality also remains one of the most important challenges.
All this requires active steps to be made by us,” PM Mamuka Bakhtadze said.
He also stated the blood lead level in children also represents an important challenge for the modern world.
We should focus on the recommendations issued by the WHO and apply the best practices western countries have accumulated,” Bakhtadze said.
Lead exposure is an important public health problem that causes cumulative toxicity in multiple body systems, Georgian National Center for Disease Control reports.
Blood lead level in children also represents an important challenge, Georgian PM Bakhtadze says. Photo:health.harvard.edu.
Children are particularly vulnerable to its neurotoxic effects.
As NCDC representative Lela Sturua stated no lead was observed in food and water according to the research conducted in 2017, netgazeti.ge reports.
In 2017 the New York City Department of Health warned Georgians that the spices sent from Georgia to the U.S. contained lead.
The coordination council headed by Prime Minister Bakhtadze operates through the 2018-2022 National Environment and Healthcare Action Plan.
The National Environment Agency of the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture has installed a new air monitoring station in Rustavi today.
Tests conducted by the National Environmental Agency (NEA) on 21 January show the concentration of four pollutants in the atmosphere in Tbilisi, Batumi, and Kutaisi to be within normal levels, except for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and solid particle (PM10) concentrations.
Twenty families and several non-governmental organisations have teamed up and created a volunteer group to determine the volume of lead particles in Tbilisi air, announces Georgia Alliance for Safe Roads.
Georgia’s National Agency of Environment has reported based on the latest data of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the air pollution in the country equals the average air pollution levels of Eastern European countries.
A group of NGOs and specialists which teamed up in January 2019 have released the results of a study which aimed to determine the source of lead particles in Tbilisi.
Rezo Charkviani has been appointed as Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze’s consultant for youth affairs.
The Georgian Health Ministry will create a programme to help children with high lead levels in their blood and will also provide a long-term plan to combat the problem, head of the National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze said.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has opened a new clinic called Jerarsi in Tbilisi. Bakhtadze said more than 40 million GEL about $14,897,578.80/€13,265,995.97) was invested in the clinic.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze opened a multi-profile laboratory today – Mega Lab, which will offer high-tech analyses and tests.
The first nationwide survey has been released, with 1,578 children tested, which reads that 41 per cent of Georgian children have elevated blood levels of lead. The study was conducted between September and December 2018 as part of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), the largest household survey worldwide in which Georgia participated.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze stated that 90% of pine trees in Tbilisi have a contagious disease and this is why they should be cut down.
The lead level in children’s blood has gone down, the Head of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Amiran Gamkrelidze stated today.