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The Socialist councilor Marisol Sanchez explained that for the same reason, the national statistics down to 11.4%.

Therefore, the socialist mayor asked "what is happening in Lorca" and requested the PP mayor, Francisco Jodar, "not to go over the data"

Socialist Councillor Maria Sanchez today called the creation of a technical committee to discuss scientific and political causes of the high rate of mortality in women due Lorca respiratory diseases.

As reported in the Epidemiological Bulletin of Murcia (www.murciasalud.es / bem) prepared by the Ministry of Health of the regional government of PP based on recent data (2008), in Sun City 45.7% of women died as a result.

Nationally, the figure drops to 11.4%.

For the mayor of the PSOE these data demonstrate that the council of the Environment, Melchor Morales spoke "happily" when he said last week that "there is no record of citizens who have reported having suffered health problems" as a result of high pollution levels Lorca atmospheric reported by Ecologists in Action.

Sanchez explained that following the remarks of Morales, "a group of doctors has sent us articles and health statistics show the need to further investigate this issue."

The PSOE Councillor said his party would not create any alarm because "the data we have developed ourselves, but the regional government of PP", but "it is clear that this huge difference of more than 34 points below the national average are to take action rather than to downplay. "

Asked about the possibility that the increase in smoking among women to influence the increase in respiratory deaths, Sanchez replied that "it sure is part of the problem."

However, it recalled that mortality from lung cancer in Spanish women is increasing every year by 4%, a figure "high" but which can not be attributed entirely that 45.7% of women who die from diseases Lorca respiratory system.

Therefore, the socialist mayor asked "what is happening in Lorca" and requested the PP mayor, Francisco Jodar, "not to go over the data" and to demand that the regional government of the PP,

, Which has exclusive competence in the field of Health and the Environment, "to identify the causes of high mortality from respiratory diseases among women in Lorca."

For Sanchez's "obligation" City Council "intervene" in a firm tackle the causes of this "soaring" of mortality statistics.

Source: PSOE Lorca