more-inWhat is the constantly high air pollution levels in the Capital doing to your health? “We are now seeing teenaged patients who have lungs with black spots, which is an indication of toxic deposits due to air pollution. Delhiites are gasping for breath, coughing relentlessly, fighting deadly pneumonia and finding themselves in the emergency departments of hospitals whereas children here are on nebulizers. We takes approximately 25,000 breaths a day on average and each breath of this polluted air is slowly killing us,” he says. Environment activists, medical research journals and other sources have long been warning against the rising health and economic crisis related to air pollution.

Source: The Hindu October 24, 2017 19:52 UTC