Saturday, 2 April 2016

Air Pollution In Kathmandu Is A Serious Problem

If you leave Kathmandu City.Other city and all Nepal has good rank against pollution. Kathmandu's air pollution is beyond the point of acceptance at dry season.“In Asia, urban air pollution in many cities rivals the levels that existed during the first decades of the 20th century in Europe and North America and account for a large proportion of global health burden in relation to air pollution,” she says. “Although air pollution and human health have been extensively studied in the West, there are important limitations to extrapolating health effects based on Western cities to developing Asian cities. “Studies in places like Kathmandu are important where rapid urbanization is leading to considerable deterioration of air quality.”Nepal’s air quality ranks 177th out of 178 countries, according to Yale’s 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), better only than Bangladesh. As a physician working in one of Kathmandu’s main teaching hospitals, I see a disproportionate amount of patients with respiratory ailments who are admitted to the wards on a daily basis, the victims of dirty air. Walking to and from work along the crowded, exhaust-choked streets, I sometimes wonder how more people are not sick.