Friday, November 10, 2017

'Half my lung cancer patients are non-smokers': toxic air crisis chokes Delhi...

As the air quality fell, first to severe, then to emergency levels this week, doctors at Sir Ganga Ram hospital knew they needed to start fast-tracking patients.

“They come in, they get a nebuliser, and they go,” says Arvind Kumar, a lung surgeon at the medical facility in north Delhi.

Doctors have declared a public health crisis in the city. Dust, industrial emissions and vehical fumes have been sealed in by cool temperature and still winds.

At the same time, mass burning of crop waste across the north Indian hinterland has sent dense smoke billowing across one of the world’s most populated regions. Full story...

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