Doctors need to come together to fight Global Climate Change: Experts
New Delhi : In a first move to create awareness about the connection between climate change and healthcare sector and how they impact each other the Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI) in association with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) recently organized national health conclave on 23rd March 2019 in New Delhi.
Stakeholders of different fields including doctors, scientists, politicians, and among others came together to discuss some of the crucial issues like the use of plastics by doctors and how medical professionals are not aware that a central line insertion can aid plastic pollution. Moreover, the event saw discussions on how Biomedical Waste Management is often overlooked by health professionals which can catastrophically increase the pollution aiding to climate change.
Addressing the adaptation strategies, Dr. Giridhar Gyani, Secretary General, Quality Council of India- "Main sources of Green House Gases (GHG) emission are fossil fuel burning which contributes up to 80% and another is deforestation. Hence there is a need to reduce dependence on these fossils through renewables."
Elaborating the socio-economic complications that may arise due to global climate change Dr. Gyani added- "given the fact that 2/3rd of India’s population is dependent on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture, fishing, and forestry, that will be greatly impacted by the climate change impacts. In addition, global warming induced temperature increase, resulting in sea level rise, floods and storms will also cause health impact"
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