India is back in the news, and not for happy reasons. First, it slipped three notches to 100 among 119 countries on the Global Hunger Index (GHI) of 2017. And now, according to Global Burden of Disease (GBD), a comprehensive WHO-led regional and global research programme, the country reports 620,000 premature deaths every year owing to air pollution! Gurgaon news
The report states that respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are the key reasons for air pollution-induced premature deaths. These diseases include stroke (25.48 percent), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (17.32 percent), Ischemic heart disease (48.6 percent), lower respiratory infections (6.4 percent), and trachea, bronchus and lung cancer (2.02 percent).
All this and much more will be discussed at a workshop to be held tomorrow at DLF City Club, Phase 4.
Experts in the field of environment will discuss various strategies to deal with the thick blanket of smog that develops every year in Delhi-NCR around this time.
The workshop will be attended by RWA members and schoolchildren, the worst victims of early-morning smog.
