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FIT and #MyRightToBreathe are reporting live from first ‘Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health’. 

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India Tops in Air Pollution Related Deaths in Children: WHO

Air pollution is proving to be deadly for kids, damaging their brains and infecting them with serious diseases, finds a new World Health Organization (WHO) report. Every day 1.8 billion children, which makes around 93 percent of the world’s children under the age of 15 years, breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development at serious risk.

The report examines the heavy toll that air pollution has on child health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Tragically, many of them die. The WHO estimates that 600,000 children died in 2016 from acute lower respiratory infections caused by dirty air.

According to the WHO report, at least 1,00,000 children below five years died in India in 2016, due to complications in their health that was brought about by increased levels of outdoor and indoor air pollution.

After India, Nigeria ranked second at 98,001 number of child deaths due to air pollution in 2016, followed by Pakistan (38,252), Democratic Republic of Congo (32,647) and Ethiopia (20,330).

4:50 PM , 01 Nov
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The WHO is organising the first ‘Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health’ at it’s headquarters in Geneva between 30 October - 1 November 2018.

Air pollution is termed as the “new tobacco” by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Breathing in polluted air is costing the world 7 million lives every year and causing harm to more than a billion people.

The conference, which will be attended by Ministers of Health and Environment of various countries and other representatives, will be aimed at implementing strategies which will help hasten the efforts to reduce air pollution significantly.

FIT and #MyRightToBreathe are reporting live from the event. Get all the live updates here.

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4:40 PM , 01 Nov

WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Speaks on the Third Day of the Conference

Dr Tedros said that the past two days of the conference have been both ‘sobering and inspiring’.

He thanked the participants for their innovative ideas to combat air pollution in their countries and emphasized on the need for a global action to fight this menace. He said that all sectors must be involved in creating policies that help human health.

All pollution knows no boundaries. So we must know no boundaries in our efforts to stop it.
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3:05 PM , 31 Oct

Dr Arvind Kumar Speaks on the Second Day at the WHO's Conference on Air Pollution and Health

“We may be breathing for life but this breathing is killing us!”, says Dr Arvind Kumar at the event.

This is how air pollution attacks every organ of our bodies.

There are no non-smokers in India, says Dr Kumar at the event.

Dr Kumar announced “Doctors for Clean Air” initiative at the Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health in Geneva.

8:25 PM , 30 Oct

First day of the event has seen a flurry of activity, with posters put up with the tagline Unmask My City.

FIT and #MyRightToBreathe are reporting live from first ‘Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health’. 
Unmask Delhi. PM2.5 levels reached 450 in some parts.
Photo Courtesy:Ravina Raj Kohli/MyRightToBreathe
FIT and #MyRightToBreathe are reporting live from first ‘Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health’. 
Hollywood actor Julia Roberts campaigns for CleanCookingAlliance
Photo Courtesy:Ravina Raj Kohli/MyRightToBreathe
FIT and #MyRightToBreathe are reporting live from first ‘Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health’. 
Unmask My City
Photo Courtesy:Ravina Raj Kohli/MyRightToBreathe
FIT and #MyRightToBreathe are reporting live from first ‘Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health’. 
Doctors for clean air
Photo Courtesy:Ravina Raj Kohli/MyRightToBreathe
FIT and #MyRightToBreathe are reporting live from first ‘Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health’. 
Unmask My City
Photo Courtesy:Ravina Raj Kohli/MyRightToBreathe
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Published: 30 Oct 2018, 3:01 PM IST
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