Doctors sound the alarm: Major air pollution endangers Kosovars from cancer

And Kosovo doctors are alarming on the risk of this. Citizens, they say, are in danger of contracting cancer and many other diseases from this pollution.

Kosovars are now facing extreme air pollution for a week, thus exceeding 300 times the average of allowed pollution. This is according to American Embassy data saying that the values of the PM2.5 are several times out of normal and today on January 8, 2018 has reached 360 AQI maximum values.

And some countries in Kosovo have been covered by fog for two days. Pollution and the creation of this view come from various factors, such as thermal power plants, burning coals for heating, and vehicles. And that is alarming Kosovo doctors. That is because this pollution can bring certain diseases into the human organism.

The Express newspaper, on Tuesday, has talked to KKUKUU's doctor, Skender Bacza, who is a transmitologist-scientist lung disease specialist. According to him, this pollution poses danger to citizens of the country.

“Tests that can bring air pollution to Kosovo are bronze asma and bronkial cancer, which has direct connections to tobacco and environmental pollution”, the doctor says.

He also explains what are the most endangered layers of pollution.

“This air pollution affects exacerbating, worsening, restoring episodes of chronic ebstropics, or chronic bronhitis. But our disaster is that the population smokes too much and gets worse with air pollution. For example, a patient who smokes and submits to this pollution is far more difficult to pass”, he explains.

According to him at the Pulmology Clinic in QKUK over the past year, about 300 young patients with chronic obstructive diseases have been diagnosed. He says it has come to this as a consequence of the heavy industry that applies to Kosovo. But despite that, doctor Skender Baca says that Kosovo in the past has had even greater air pollution.

“countries that have heavy industries, they are the most endangered. We've had more air pollution before than we have now. It was the big industries, the factories that caused air pollution. But now it works only Fernikel and Obiliki from these large pollutants”.

For air quality in Kosovo today, the National Institute of Public Health in Kosovo has also alarmed. I The KSHP says that in the winter season the city of Pristina has been immersed in smog, featuring combined pollution of gas and aerosole, which is widely seen.

“The short-term effects of aerondotes by parties according to many data lead to increasing the number of patients with bronquial asthma, chronic bronze, chronic lung obstructive diseases to delayed ages, increased hospital admissions from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, life cuts, and an increase in the mortality of <x1, says the response of IKCHOP.