Professor Servando Pérez, President of Mercuriados (Spain) and Vice President of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, has put an end to his hunger strike for health reasons. He was carrying out his strike in the Hospital Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in order to demand treatment for chronic mercury intoxication. Spain, which is one of the countries in the world which has produced the most mercury, but does not have, in its public health services, doctors nor the facilities to do chelation (the treatment to take toxic metals out of the body) for chronic mercury intoxication. It does however, have chelation for acute mercury intoxication, but that is an easier treatment to do. The lack of proper health services for damage done by toxic metals in Spain is experienced by thousands of people in the country. This was the reason why Servando, had the bravery to strike and show the entire world of this lack of treatment for those compromised by heavy metals.

After Professor Pérez refused to leave the hospital for a month and was on a hunger strike for a week demanding to be treated (as was ordered by a judge when he was diagnosed), the hospital finally came to an agreement to refer him to a toxicologist in Valencia. Yet, this toxicologist has already stated that in Spain there are not any hospitals which can treat chronic mercury intoxication, so the solution to Servando’s situation and for thousands of other people in his situation in Spain is still up in the air. We are now entering into a second phase of this fight which involves meeting with the Spanish Ministry of Health.

We, the Spanish associations of patients with environmental illnesses (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalitis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Intoxication by Toxic Metals), continue to fight for appropriate treatments by the public health care system. We want to thank Servando Pérez for his bravery, his coherence, and for being an example for all of us. We know that during his stay in the hospital he was pressured and harassed by doctors and administration, including very aggressive behavior on the part of the psychiatrists who wanted to diagnose him as having a psychiatric disorder.

We also want to thank all the scientists, doctors, associations and individuals who, all over the world, have, during Servando’s lock-in and hunger strike, have contacted the Spanish and the Galician authorities to protest for Servando’s situation and who have shown support for our fight. We hope to continue to count on your support.

We are all Servando!

Viva Servando!

Clara Valverde, President Liga SFC, Spain, August 1, 2010

(on behalf of Servando who is too ill to write)

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