As per a worldwide report from the US-based Health Effects Institute and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation that was delivered yesterday, South Asia is the most contaminated locale on the planet as far as air. The circumstance is particularly critical in Bangladesh, with air contamination prompting 1,73,500 passings a year ago, and with the whole populace living in zones where the air quality isn't viewed as protected. The report additionally makes reference to that air contamination has become the second driving wellbeing hazard factor after hypertension in Bangladesh, and that our future would have seen the most elevated expected increase of almost 1.3 years if the air contamination level met the WHO rules.
Why have we permitted air contamination levels to crumble to the degree that over 1.7 lakh Bangladeshis have been executed by it—of which 10,500 were just babies? Specialists have believed that the nation's air is getting progressively toxic, with the significant toxins being family strong powers, dust from building destinations, coal power plants, block creation, transportation and diesel-controlled gear, among others. Regardless of this, not many solid advances have been taken to decrease indoor air contamination through cleaner cooking methods, and to control the areas liable for outside air contamination and supplant them with greener activities.
Truth be told, Bangladesh is just further growing its coal industry with the assistance of agreeable countries, and notwithstanding an administration choice to eliminate block furnaces by 2025 in all development work and supplant them with solid squares rather, these ovens are working the nation over. A large number of them are doing so unlawfully, making extraordinary mischief close by local locations. As per specialists, stopping trash consuming will decrease air contamination by around 30%, yet this training additionally proceeds with unabated. In February this year, the High Court gave a nine-guide order toward control air contamination which, in addition to other things, included covering locales where development work is in progress, holding onto vehicles that emanate dark smoke and guaranteeing the utilization of spreads on trucks or different vehicles that transport sand or soil. The majority of these mandates have not been executed up until now.
Air contamination isn't only a natural issue; it is a significant general medical condition and at this stage, the specialists should regard it as a crisis and make quick strides including passing the draft Bangladesh Clean Air Act and guaranteeing its usage. There are no reasons for aloofness and defer with regards to controlling air contamination in Bangladesh, particularly during the pandemic when there is away from of the association between air contamination and expanded heart and lung illnesses, and of how individuals with these sicknesses are more helpless against Covid-19.