(ANSA) – TURIN, JULY 29 – The health system also affects climate change. This was stated by the doctors themselves during the meeting ‘The climate crisis is a health crisis’ which took place at the European meeting of Fridays for Future, at the Einaudi University Campus in Turin. The meeting was attended by Paolo Vineis, professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Imperial College of London, Anna Ravetti, doctor and coordinator of the Medical and Environmental Commission of the Turin Medical Association, Guido Giustetto, president of the Turin Medical Association and Claudio Gianotti, doctor.
We have not only talked about the negative effects that climate change causes on health, but also how much the health services that are provided to patients affect global warming “We estimate that they can contribute up to 5%, largely due to energy used and materials used in carrying out the tests – explained the president of the Order -. Every thousand blood tests we pollute, through the production of carbon dioxide, as if we traveled 700 kilometers in a car “.
An MRI machine used for a year on average produces an amount of anhydride corresponding to the pollution produced by a car traveling 500,000 kilometers “.” If we consider that about 20-30% of medical services are considered inappropriate, it is evidently there may be margins for intervening on this aspect “, underlined Giustetto, who highlighted how” useless tests “should be avoided, both as doctors and as citizens.
“We do the resonances and use the drugs when needed”, concluded Giustetto. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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