Italian doctors say leaving overflowing garbage in the streets in the heat is dangerous

Doctors in the Italian capital Rome highlighted the health dangers from overflowing street rubbish brewing toxic fumes in the summer heat.
“With the arrival of the heat in a dirty city in which refuse remains in the streets, the potential dangers for health increase,” said Luigi Bartoletti, deputy president of the Rome doctors’ guild, the Ordine Medici di Roma.
Bartoletti  added that the stench near the rubbish bins is an indication of bacterial contamination.
He insisted that all institutions should make choices and propose solutions, because the bins must be emptied and that Rome’s problem is where to empty them.
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi has come under fire for the piles of garbage in the streets as well as potholes, burning buses and other transport woes.
Last week Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said the government had a plan ready for Rome, which “did not deserve” the poor management it had received from Raggi’s three-year-long administration.
 

Via ANSA