Azerbaijan, Baku, 12 February / corr. Trend I. Alizadeh/ The issue of the increase in the number of deaths due to carbon monoxide poisoning was raised in the Azerbaijani parliament.
"Some 151 people have died as a result of the carbon monoxide poisoning in 2007 and up to February 2008," Gudret Hesenquliyev, the chairman of the Unified Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan said at the Parliament on 12 February.
According to Hesenguliyev, more than 400 people were saved. "However no measures are taken to eliminate the problem. The official structures say that there are no poisonous substances in the gas supplied to the people. Then why are people dying of the carbon monoxide?" MP said.
He stated that though the law enforcement appealed to the relevant departments, there have not been any results. The State Agency on the Standardization, Metrology and Patent has not taken any measures in this regard at all, he said.
Ziyafat Asgarov, the first deputy chairman of the Milli Majlis (Azerbaijani parliament) said that he had talked to the companies who sell gas to the population and they said that the gas supplied to the people is not poisonous. The problem is attributed to the gas fires, he said.
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