Reza Mahmud :
Everyone is passing by without any reaction. But it seriously harms everyone’s eyes. It is welding works. It also caused fever, hearing capacity lose, stomach and other health problems. There are many workshops in front of the streets across the capital city. The law prohibits it. But who care!
“Two of my kids studied at Kobbad Sardar Government Primary School, besides Dhupkhola playground of Gandaria. Lot of workshops are running in front of the school who regularly welding rods and metals for different works. They create very harmful rays from the welding works. The ray, especially harms our eyes. Me and other guardians of the school children are anxious for the eye safety of our kids,” said Halima Jahan, a resident of Gandaria.
The motor and metal workshops are now seen everywhere in the capital, Dhaka. In the city’s Dholaikhal, Swamibagh, Jatrabari, Syedabad, Mitford road, English road, Lalbagh, Malibagh, Moghbazar, Banglamotor, Tejgaon, Uttara and other areas, most of the workshops use welding sticks to repair and to make metals. The metal workshops make windows, grills and other things using welding sticks. Some workshops are making various parts of industrial equipment.
The motor workshops repair various parts of vehicles by using sticks. Physicians and experts said, the ray, created by using the welding sticks, are harmful for human eyes.
Besides, most of the workshops appointed child labours for the risky works. It harms their eyes and hearing capacity
seriously. As a result, the child labours might lose their sight and hearing capacity in years.
Abdur Razzak, a resident of Mirhazirbagh, said, he used to bring his son and daughter from a Syedabad school through doyagonj rail crossing road. But, there are a lot of workshops making industrial boilers and other equipment. The workers are using welding machine with the sticks, which creates rays. The ray attracts the children. They look upon directly to the ray. They did not understand that those are harming their eyes seriously.
Dr. Mukhlesuzzaman Hero, Deputy Director of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMUH), also an eye specialist told The New Nation, “The welding emitted ultra violet ray are combination of some metals. It is seriously harmful for human health. Especially, it harms eyes retina. It may cause visual problems, eye wetting problem in which the nonstop water drops from eyes.”
He added the welding also emitted some gases, which is responsible for stomach problems and fevers for the nearby people. It also causes hearing problems for general people.”
He said, the wielding works in open place should not let to go. It must stop by the local police strictly.
One of the workshop owners at Moghbazar, preferring anonymity, said they have to pay extortion regularly to influential persons, so no one could stop them.
After asking, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Gandaria Police Station told The New Nation, “Using welding in open places are banned. No one let to go violating the laws. No one has given any objection about the workshops in Dhupkhola or elsewhere under the PS. We surely investigate the matter immediately.”
Everyone is passing by without any reaction. But it seriously harms everyone’s eyes. It is welding works. It also caused fever, hearing capacity lose, stomach and other health problems. There are many workshops in front of the streets across the capital city. The law prohibits it. But who care!
“Two of my kids studied at Kobbad Sardar Government Primary School, besides Dhupkhola playground of Gandaria. Lot of workshops are running in front of the school who regularly welding rods and metals for different works. They create very harmful rays from the welding works. The ray, especially harms our eyes. Me and other guardians of the school children are anxious for the eye safety of our kids,” said Halima Jahan, a resident of Gandaria.
The motor and metal workshops are now seen everywhere in the capital, Dhaka. In the city’s Dholaikhal, Swamibagh, Jatrabari, Syedabad, Mitford road, English road, Lalbagh, Malibagh, Moghbazar, Banglamotor, Tejgaon, Uttara and other areas, most of the workshops use welding sticks to repair and to make metals. The metal workshops make windows, grills and other things using welding sticks. Some workshops are making various parts of industrial equipment.
The motor workshops repair various parts of vehicles by using sticks. Physicians and experts said, the ray, created by using the welding sticks, are harmful for human eyes.
Besides, most of the workshops appointed child labours for the risky works. It harms their eyes and hearing capacity
seriously. As a result, the child labours might lose their sight and hearing capacity in years.
Abdur Razzak, a resident of Mirhazirbagh, said, he used to bring his son and daughter from a Syedabad school through doyagonj rail crossing road. But, there are a lot of workshops making industrial boilers and other equipment. The workers are using welding machine with the sticks, which creates rays. The ray attracts the children. They look upon directly to the ray. They did not understand that those are harming their eyes seriously.
Dr. Mukhlesuzzaman Hero, Deputy Director of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMUH), also an eye specialist told The New Nation, “The welding emitted ultra violet ray are combination of some metals. It is seriously harmful for human health. Especially, it harms eyes retina. It may cause visual problems, eye wetting problem in which the nonstop water drops from eyes.”
He added the welding also emitted some gases, which is responsible for stomach problems and fevers for the nearby people. It also causes hearing problems for general people.”
He said, the wielding works in open place should not let to go. It must stop by the local police strictly.
One of the workshop owners at Moghbazar, preferring anonymity, said they have to pay extortion regularly to influential persons, so no one could stop them.
After asking, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Gandaria Police Station told The New Nation, “Using welding in open places are banned. No one let to go violating the laws. No one has given any objection about the workshops in Dhupkhola or elsewhere under the PS. We surely investigate the matter immediately.”
