as the level air quality Delhi-NCR deteriorated to an alarming level after Diwali and is now in the severe category, Dr Arvind Kumar, president of the Institute of Chest Surgery at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital, said on Sunday, adding that air pollution causes serious health problems in children. And it causes. irreparable and irreversible damage.
He said that there is smog in the air and it will continue till January.
while talking to ANIKumar quoted a “Lung Care Foundation” study saying, “In Delhi more than 50 percent of adolescents have more chest symptoms, 29 percent have asthma, 40 percent are obese (more than 200 percent of adolescents have chest symptoms). symptoms of asthma) children are suffering.”
The doctor said, “We have found that the children are experiencing chest discomfort. They complain of shortness of breath. In short, air pollution is affecting them adversely.”
Kumar further said that due to pollution, children are also facing problems in brain, lungs, heart and other organs.
Talking about air pollution and the measures taken by the government to combat it, Kumar said, “Installing smog towers is a huge waste of public money and a serious mistake. The answer lies in preventing the air from getting polluted.” Is.”
“Pollution has killed more people than COVID, but it has not been given the kind of attention it deserves,” Kumar said.
Kumar also said that some stringent measures need to be taken to control pollution. “Study burning is one of the major areas which should be given priority,” he said.
The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said on Sunday that the air quality in Delhi remained in the ‘severe’ category with an AQI at 436.
Pollution levels were also worrying in the National Capital Region (NCR), namely Noida and Gurugram. Noida recorded an AQI in the ‘hazardous’ category at 575, while the air quality in Gurugram was in the upper end of the ‘severe’ category at 478.
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