Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label air pollution and health

AIR POLLUTION KILLED 116,000 BABIES BEFORE THEY ATTAINED 1 MONTH IN 2019 IN INDIA

  MONOJ GOGOI According to State of Global Air 2020, report released on 21 Oct, 2020 neonatal mortality rate has been increasing day by day for worsening air quality around the globe. Based on the findings of the report, the United States of America’s Health Effects Institute and Global Burden of Disease revealed that in India severe air pollution killed more than 116,000 infants before the attained a month in the year 2019 which is highest in number in any country in the world in the year. Low income countries continue to suffer more as newborns mortality is estimated 67,000 in Nigeria, 56,500 in Pakistan, 22,900 in Ethiopia and 12,700 in DR Congo due to exposure of contaminated air in 2019. In 2019, 476,000 newborns died worldwide the report stated. The annual average concentration of India’s Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5 recorded highest in 2019, the report revealed. Any Indian can say about worsening pollutions of Indian cities including the capital city Delhi and resulted in...