The National Institute of Public Health recommends avoiding spending time outdoors, especially for sensitive groups of people, due to high levels of air pollution.
In a recent recommendation, IKSHPK appeals to wear masks and stay in protected environments to reduce the risk, reports klankosova.tv.
AIR QUALITY INFORMATION WITH RECOMMENDATIONS
Kosovo and especially the city of Pristina are currently facing high levels of air pollution.
Air pollution is considered a risk to human health, especially for vulnerable groups with respiratory and respiratory diseases.
Short-term health effects of air pollution: illnesses, hospitalizations, health complications and deaths.
Long-term health effects: morbidity, lung cancer, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.
The most common causes of death and illness associated with air pollution are: ischemic heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchitis, emphysema, eye and respiratory irritation, especially asthma attacks and lung cancer.
WHO data shows that air pollution leads to nearly 500,000 premature deaths worldwide every year. Approximately 290,000 of these deaths occur in high-income countries, while 190,000 deaths occur in middle- and low-income countries.
9 out of 19 people breathe air that exceeds WHO guidelines for high levels of pollutants.
Cold days and temperature drops can complicate the situation due to heating with various harmful and low-quality fuels used by citizens, transport and industry.
Therefore, follow the IKSHPK’s recommendations for risk reduction. if the air has high pollutant levels
Reduce stay in the city and in places with polluted air, especially in the morning and evening, and especially for people with chronic diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, children and pregnant women;
Stay at home and do not open windows to ventilate rooms while high levels persist;
People who are necessarily on site for their activities outside the home should wear protective masks and cover their mouth and nose with a scarf.
Smoking should be restricted outdoors where people move around and prohibited in closed spaces within the meaning of the law as well as in living, working, school and hospital rooms.
Vulnerable populations such as people with chronic lung disease, heart disease, asthmatics and allergy-prone patients, the elderly, young children and pregnant women are recommended to spend more time in low-pollution environments such as: B. Mountains and healthy, to spend resorts
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