Toeing the line of WHO, Delhi Medical Association has dispelled myths and misconceptions about cell phone and mobile tower radiation.

 

 

The doctors from various disciplines like Oncologist, Cardiologist, Gynecologist and Physicist, rubbished unwanted fear of harmful effects/health hazards from EMF Emissions/Radiations emanating out of mobile phones and mobile towers.

 

 

A WHO fact sheet 193, June 2011 said that research does not suggest any consistent evidence of adverse health effects from exposure to RF fields at levels below those that cause tissue heating.

 

 

It went on to say that research has not been able to provide support for a causal relationship between exposure to EMF and self-reported symptoms, or “electromagnetic hypersensitivity”.

 

Dr. Anil Agarwal, President, DMA, said that radiation from the mobile towers poses no threat to health or cause cancer, as is commonly believed. There are no empirical findings to establish that mobile tower radiation causes cancer or any such diseases.

 

“The radiation emitted is just too weak to be harmful. Across the globe, these emissions are monitored by UN bodies like World Health Organization (WHO), which comes out fact sheets from time to time”, he said. 

 

He said that since there is a lot of ambiguity prevailing among the masses regarding the harmful effects of radiation, we as members of DMA thought it is the right time for us to share the scientific facts behind this technology, in order to remove the unwanted fear of ill - effects of Mobile Radiation,” added  Anil Agarwal.

 

“Any electro-magnetic wave whose frequency is smaller — such as infra-red, microwave, radio waves, and the typical cell tower waves (900 MHz) used for cell phones also do not have enough energy to cause a mutation in our DNA. AIIMS and Indian Medical Association (IMA) buildings itself have Cell Phone Towers, which clearly proves that the medical community trusts the WHO prescribed emission levels as clearly not harmful, said Dr Prem Aggarwal, Interventional Cardiologist & Electro-physiologist.

 

The doctors said that the microwave ovens at home emanate more radiations than the telecom towers and that radiation emitted by the Sun is thousand times stronger than ones emitted by a tower.

 

India has adopted a strict radiation limit, which is one-tenth of the international norm. India's current radiation exposure limit (0.45 w/m2.) for mobile towers which is much lesser than countries like USA, Canada and Japan, whose radiation exposure limit is much higher (9 w/m2)