TACLOBAN CITY – Based on the committee hearing conducted by the committee on environment and natural resources of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Leyte, cellular phone sites have no adverse effect to human health as stated by Department of Health, Bureau of Health Devices and Technology Health physicist Rudolf Jiz.
The reason, according to Jiz, why cell site radiation is not harmful to human health is because its radiation is considered as non-iodizing radiation or a low energy radiation which is also found in microwave and radio transmitters.
He added that modern cell sites are now regulated by emitting low power radiation with only two watts power.
The committee hearing was conducted in relation to the proposed ordinance authored by first district Board Member Roque Tiu, who is also the chairman of the committee on environment, that aims to regulate the construction, installation, establishments, operation and maintenance of cell sites of base stations of cellular mobile telephone services in the province of Leyte.
The proposed ordinance was due to complaints by some residents in the province on the mushrooming of cell sites in some locality which residents fear could affect health.
Aside from Jiz, the committee hearing was attended by Department of the Interior and Local Government Provincial Director Artemio Caneja, Engineer Ronaldo Penserga of the National Telecommunications and Communication, forester Leo Santiago Dacanay, Senior Environment Management Specialist of the Environmental Management Bureau, and Engineer Florentino Quiñones, Science Research Specialist II of the Department of Science and Technology.
Jiz, who provided insight regarding radiation and its effects to human health, provided information based on the statement of the World Health Organization, stating that telecommunication sites has no adverse effects to human health but made precautions that cell phones should be put away from human organs specially to male as its heating effect has a harmful effect on genitals.
Jiz added that cell phones users especially those who use mobile phone for calls must limits it to five minutes, and if they cannot avoid it by limiting their call to five minutes, they must use ear phones or speaker phones.
He added that local government units must also be informed that mobile phone companies are required to ask a permit from the Bureau of Health Devices and Technology prior to installation of cell sites.
With the inputs that the committee had learned from the resource person, Tiu had asked to provide them a written comment which they need to be forwarded to the Sangguniang members two weeks after the conducted committee hearing.
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