Various actions promoted by the SFC-SQM of Castilla-La Mancha raise awareness among the population of Ciudad Real about how environmental pollution and the consumption of toxic substances affect our health.
La Association of people affected by Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome of Castilla-La Mancha (SFC-SQM) commemorates World Environment Day 2022 warning about the need to reduce excessive consumption of chemical and potentially toxic products. And it is that every day more cases of MCS are diagnosed, a disease whose origin is found in the massive and growing presence of toxic substances in the environment.
MCS is recognized as a disease in Spain. It is an acquired disorder (you are not born with it) for which the person affected stops tolerating commonly used chemicalssuch as cleaning or personal hygiene products. Despite being recognized as a disease, its diagnosis is often delayed for years because, even among doctors, there is a lack of training in environmental health.
Although World Environment Day was celebrated on June 5, the SFC-SQM of Castilla-La Mancha has organized a program of activities that lasts for several days, with different actions to raise awareness and sensitize citizens about the need to develop habits that preserve health and the environment. It is about transmitting advice to achieve healthier and optimal natural and urban spaces, which necessarily involves reducing the emission of chemical pollutants as a result of human activities.
These actions include the conference “Environmental pollution on global health”, which will be taught by the Dr. Rafael Mateo Soria next June 7 at 20.00:XNUMX p.m. at the López Villaseñor Museum in Ciudad Real.
Poster of the activities promoted by the SFC-SQM of Castilla-La Mancha in Ciudad Real to commemorate World Environment Day 2022.
Rafael Mateo is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a specialist in Ecotoxicology applied to wildlife, a tenured professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and director of the Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC – CSIC, UCLM, JCCM) since 2015, where he is also responsible for the Research Group in Wildlife Toxicology. In his conference, Dr. Rafael Mateo will talk about the chemical pollution, one of the most harmful forms of environmental pollution for the environment and for people's health, from an approach One Health (“One Health”).