Deputy of PD, former Minister of Health Tritan Shehu calls for the import of phototoxin to be banned in our country, as many other countries have banned. His reaction comes after the suicide of 41-year-old Bedrie Loka.
Shehu adds that phostoxin is a pesticide, but also a very strong poison for humans, with certain death and full of suffering, which in Albania you can find everywhere, both in stalls and in kiosks
Full reaction:
Fostoxina is taking dozens of lives “under the care” of the state, because Fostoxina must be urgently removed from the agricultural pharmacopoeia, i.e. its import should be banned as in most countries!
This is a request and an accusation against the state, which I raised in parliament, commissions, the media, with the Ministers of Agriculture many times, but only silence in response
Phostoxin is a pesticide, but also a very strong poison for humans, with certain death and full of suffering, which in Albania you can find everywhere, both in stalls and in kiosks. Everywhere! Out of control, today it has become a symbol of suicides, thus creating a direct psychological link between it and the “desire” for suicide, thus becoming a trigger for that tragic act.
However, it can also be a serious and even deadly pest, even accidentally by using it as a pesticide.
Its use as a pesticide for these and other reasons has been removed from use in most countries of the world, being replaced by other alternatives, much less dangerous.
Even in India, where it still circulates, its use is allowed only in packaging that makes it impossible to swallow, while in Albania you can find it just like a candy, everywhere.
This, for two reasons:
1- Because the state doesn’t even want to know about the lives of lost citizens, and in this case most of them are young!
2- And because of the interests of financial dependencies, which prevent the taking of necessary decisions… the removal from the pharmacopoeia, i.e. the import ban, thus stimulating suicides through the actions or inactions of the institutions.
Today it must be said clearly: “Enough is enough!”
