IK Flags on pollution: Pristina is mired in smog, citizens being seriously threatened

The National Institute of Public Health such as the highest health, scientific and professional institution is constantly researching the impact of environmental factors on population health, proposes and makes professional decisions, and recommends competent institutions to eliminate detected shortcomings and their harmful health impact.

IP KSH, says that in the winter season, the city of Pristina has been immersed in smog, featuring combined pollution of gas and aerosol, which is widely seen, broadcast news.net.

“According to American Embassy data, the values of PM2.5 are several times out of normal and on January 25, 2018 has reached the maximum 440 value AQE. The short-term effects of aerondotes from parties according to many data lead to increasing the number of patients with bronquial asthma, chronic correspondence, chronic lung obstructural disease to delayed age, increased hospital admissions from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, life cuts, and an increase in the mortality rate of”, the Institute has indicated.

According to, IPKSH, as potentially well-known sources, are electric power plants, the use of heating in winter season, outdated vehicles and heavy traffic, fuel burning and solid fuel, burning waste, use of pesticides, lack of sufficient green surfaces, no cleaning of roads, construction throughout the whole year without a plan of urban order, the presence of dust in the city.

This disturbing situation will weigh even more on the cold days to come, and temperatures that would make air pollution even more difficult as a result of heating with various harmful and incubative fuels that citizens are using”

Analyzing the current website, the National Institute proposes these strategic measures:

Urgently compile an action plan for improving air quality, especially in the capital, and be approved with urgent procedures by the Kosovo Parliament.

Access and transmission of air legislation in line with EU directives and O standards BSH. Implementation of national programmes and joint projects for the field of airport.

Specific measures:

Emergencyly remove old cars and cars without catalysts.

Environmental inspectors make rigorous control of fuel quality and the consumption of fossil fuels used for citizen heating.

Enhancing the number of buses with ecological fuel in public transport.

Enhancing green surfaces in urban areas.

Measurement of contamination at key points in Kosovo and daily presentation of online results.

Individual measures (healthal challenges for population)

To reduce city exits and to polluted air spots, especially in the morning and evening, and especially people with chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, children and pregnant ones;

Stay in the house and don't open the windows for the burial rooms.

Those who are imminent need to go out on their activities outside the home to use protective masks, cover their mouth and nose with scarfs.

To reduce smoking abroad where there is human circulation, and necessarily the ban on smoking within residential spaces, employment, schools and hospitals.

Groups of endangered populations such as chronic pulmonary, heart, asthmatic and allergic patients, elderly, young children, pregnant women are recommended to spend more time in areas with lower levels of pollutants, such as mountains and healthy resorts.

National Institute experts warn and alarm that if emergency measures are not taken, there will be negative effects on health damage and increased mortality from all causes, especially cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, it will be disturbing.