Apam, (C/R), Dec. 18, GNA - Mobile Phone users have been advised not to put their phones in their pockets and around their wastes to avoid the risk of becoming impotent and other health hazards.

Mr Francis Baah of the Universal Communication Limited in Accra said this at a public lecture held at the Catholic Hospital at Apam in the Gomoa West District, under the topic "effect of mobile phones on our health". He said Mobile phones that are continuously used between 10 to 15 minutes produce heat from the radiation, which can enter the brain cells to cause brain tumour.

"The heat of a mobile phone can set petrol filling stations on fire that is why some filling stations advise drivers to put off their mobile phones when purchasing petrol".

Mr Baah also cautioned expectant mothers not to put their mobile phones around the breast area, to avoid the risk of getting breast cancer. He pointed out that Mobile phones are handset and not pocket set and advised that phones should be put off during a heavy downpour accompanied with lightning. Togbe Charli V, of Health and Moral International in Accra, said using herbal medicine was not ungodly as some Christians perceive.