Air pollution causing more disability than tobacco smoke: Ex-AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria
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Air pollution in India's national capital and NCR region has been affecting the organs of the people, said former Director of AIIMS, Delhi Dr Randeep Guleria. Dr Guleria, who is also HOD of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine and sleep disorders while speaking to ANI said, "it is causing more disability than even tobacco smoke. We talk a lot about smoking, but not about using tobacco. But now the burden of disability has shifted more towards air pollution and even that is causing a big problem than as compared to smoking."
"So unfortunately the AQI is at severe range and we've seen that every year. There have been times when it went up to 900 in the last few years. The concern of course, is that it has a huge health impact. A paper published in 2017, suggested that in India every year, more than 1.24 million people die because of air pollution. So it's huge mortality that we see it causes huge disability. Many people have a problem," Dr Guleria further explained.
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