Chained to health 省, Peruvians 抗議する 採掘 汚染
LIMA, June 22 (Reuters) - Parents of sick children who live 近づく one of Peru's oldest 採掘 炭坑，オーケストラ席s （軍の）野営地，陣営d out in 前線 of the health 省 in Lima for an eighth day on Thursday, 需要・要求するing help to を取り引きする the 衝撃 of １０年間s of 採掘 汚染.
Dozens of 居住（者）s of Simon Bolivar, a 地区 in the city of Cerro de Pasco in the Peruvian Andes, traveled to Lima to 圧力（をかける） the 政府 to 宣言する a health 緊急 and build a 地域の hospital 専攻するing in （危険などに）さらす to 激しい metals.
"As a mother it's so painful to see my daughter 苦しむ," said Sarita Custodio, crying and pointing to 無分別なs on her daughter's 直面する and 武器 直面する as she sat chained to the 入り口 of the health 省 with other parents. "The doctor said it's because of the lead."
Lead, zinc, silver and other metals were 地雷d at Cerro de Pasco for more than 400 years, leaving behind piles of tailings and traces of contaminants in the 国／地域 and water that many 非難する for 病気s 範囲ing from 癌 to learning disabilities.
"Tonnes of it are outside all around and that's what our children and 居住（者）s have to live with," said Simon Bolivar 市長 Zumel Trujillo, 追加するing that there were more than 25 汚染するd 場所／位置s in his 地区 alone.
More than 40 パーセント of the area's children who were 実験（する）d in a 2012 熟考する／考慮する had 危険に high levels of lead in their 血, によれば a 審査 of some 2,700 children by 地域の health 当局.
Peruvian 鉱夫 Volcan Compania Minera, one of Peru's biggest lead and zinc 生産者s, said the last 採掘 操作／手術 at Cerro de Pasco の近くにd in 2015 but that it still 過程s 備蓄（する）s.
Volcan said most of the 地域's 汚染 dates from １０年間s 事前の to the start of its 操作／手術s and that its 現在の activities 会合，会う Peru's 環境の 基準s.
抗議する人s 勧めるd 大統領 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to make good on his （選挙などの）運動をする 誓約（する） to modernize Peru by 確実にするing basic services such as hea lth care are 利用できる to all.
The health 省 said it would 放出する a 法令 宣言するing a health 緊急 in Cerro de Pasco soon and 配分する an 即座の 予算 of about $400,000 to help the sick.
Luis Palma, a construction 労働者 from Cerro de Pasco, said all four of his children had lead levels with nine times recommended 限界s when they were 実験（する）d a １０年間 ago.
Palma said one of his sons died a few years ago after 厳しい stomach problems that he 非難するs on the 汚染, and one daughter is so mentally 無能にするd she cannot 料金d herself.
"This is 殺人，大当り us slowly," said Palma.
(報告（する）／憶測ing By Mitra Taj and Reuters TV; Editing by Richard Pullin)
