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Secretary of State for Health
Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
12 March 2004
Dear Sir
Manifestation of Health Problems Relating to Residentially located TETRA Masts
Having failed to attract any attention at all to the plight of many UK residents living in the vicinity of O2 Airwave TETRA masts, I am writing directly to your office for a satisfactory reply to the simple question they are all asking:
Why is no-one in any position of responsibility for the nation's health investigating the reported instances of ill health around TETRA masts?
The symptoms are largely limited to a range of disorders, some uncomfortable, others in danger of causing serious long-term illness. The concern is the worse for their immediacy of occurrence on the activation of these masts.
The answers we are all given, originating from Government sources, is that since research cannot determine how such ill health might arise from Tetra technology, therefore the manifestations must be fictitious or in some way psychosomatic. This they clearly are not, since cursory investigations can preclude both in many situations. In any case they are being treated as irrelevant.
It is time that smoke screens of irrelevant research were put aside and a systematic and independent epidemiological survey undertaken to confirm or deny the linkage between the symptoms and the placement of these masts. We are fully aware of the Home Office programme of research, but again this is looking for potential causes, and is not actually measuring the experiences of populations on the ground.
You and I are both familiar with the extensive elements of the argument, but as yet there has been no satisfactory explanation for the absence of a full investigation into the actual ongoing and increasing suffering of the many people concerned.
I await your reply with interest.
Yours sincerely
Andy Davidson
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