The Ministry of Health informed Hai Pa News Corporation:
All shading is beneficial to health, but vegetation as natural shading has several advantages in reducing health damage in general and in an era of climate change in particular:
- 🌱 It contributes to the absorption of carbon dioxide from the air, thus helping in the fight against global warming, climate change and its health consequences.
- 👃 It serves as a means of natural air filtration for better air quality, thus helping to prevent respiratory diseases such as asthma.
- ☀️ It provides significant protection from solar radiation, with an emphasis on sensitive populations such as children, pregnant women, and patients with chronic diseases. This helps reduce the incidence of skin cancer, skin diseases, and vision problems.
- 🌿 The existence of green spaces improves mental well-being, positively affects mood, and reduces stress and anxiety.
- 🏃♂️ Green spaces encourage physical activity and thus contribute to reducing morbidity associated with a sedentary lifestyle, such as: blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.
- 🌳 For these and other reasons, the Ministry of Health recommends and encourages local authorities to plant trees in public spaces.
Of course, consideration must be given to planting vegetation that is not harmful to the population with an allergic reaction, in order to prevent the increase in the percentage of allergenic plants, the increase in the number of allergic symptoms among the allergic public, and the increased exposure among them to damage to the respiratory system.
Provided you choose the right trees.
Trees that don't raise the sidewalks and roads.
Trees that do not send out root extensions to the control chambers of the septic tank….
Avoid planting in places that may obscure street lights, traffic signs, directional signs...
Despite all this, they came and cut branches from the ficus tree that borders our balcony in Ramat Eshkol. Without prior notice, and with great cruelty. My heart cries…