Ghana’s Radiation Protection Institute (RPI) has debunked the health risks/cancer-causing worry many telecommunications tower opponents hold. Ghana Business News reported that the RPI asserts that “radiation emitted by the towers was extremely low in energy due to the heights of the towers and could, therefore, not cause any harm.”
Dr. Philip Deatanyah, a research scientist with RPI, proclaimed that smartphones are more dangerous than towers. “The phone becomes more harmful when the masts are not close to us because the phone tries to reach the radiation from the mast by increasing its power, and by so doing, it will increase your exposure as compared to the mast,” he said. “Therefore, the closer a mast is to you, the safer it is.”
Dr. Deatanyah spoke at the 2023 Consumer Week Celebration of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications. Ghana Business News reported that The Chamber’s stakeholders include MTN, AT, Vodafone, ZeePay, tower companies, the police, and the EPA.
According to Dr. Deatanyah, research conducted by all relevant international agencies had concluded that towers did not have the energy to cause illnesses like cancer. Dr. Kenneth Ashigbe, CEO of the Chamber, added that masts in Ghana did not even meet the minimum emissions standard set by the United Nations.
During the 2023 Consumer Week Celebration, officials raised awareness and shared knowledge on the operations of the telecommunication industry.
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