Causes and Risks From Air Pollution in Pristina

The city of Pristina is facing a high measure of air pollution in recent days, which has caused alarm in citizens and relevant institutions.

According to recent measurements, Kosovo's capital is ranked the most polluted country in the world. The air in the city is being described as dangerous to health while a strategy that would affect the better lives of citizens is not being implemented. Day-to-day measurements of air in Pristina never descend below 400 PM.

Kosovo ecologist Shyqri Dumani in an interview for Periscope has said that this amount of contaminated air has resulted from the creation of fog and frost, as they are recorded as physical or physical particles.

The polluted air is due to fog, and, as the Bryma people say, it has created a situation and a state of concern, because fog with frost also registers like physical particles, such as physical pollutants, but also makes a kind of shut-down of pollutants, practically those coming out of road communication. These gases can't be distributed into the atom. It's practically some sort of imprisonment of all gases at a distance of two or three meters.

However, he says that the situation is not as alarming as it is being preached, since the equipment also records the particles of fog and frost, which are physical pollutants.

In practice, these measurements indicate a real state, but when they take the situation in an analysis, they could not be as alarming as they are being preached, because the equipment also records the particles of fog and frost. These particles are physical pollution, yet they create a situation that is not appropriate for chronically ill citizens of the respiratory system, since it is most manifested to them. He said ecologist Durant.

According to him, other pollution factors are busy road communication, the use of fuels for heating, high and unplanned construction, lack of green environments, and so on.

The number one factor is road communications and fuel used for home heating, so we cannot eliminate them. However, fog and frost, that is, meteorological conditions create an even more adverse situation in the sense of environmental pollution. The air situation in Pristina is adjusted to the momen when the mist departs and a better situation develops. All citizens who want to move and have chronic diseases of the respiratory system must come up at the moment when the sun comes out practically and the fog is removed. It's the most favourable situation for all of us.

It shows the long-term measures that institutions must take in order to avoid this not favourable state for the health of Pristina citizens.

Institutions can only minimize these factors that are detening pollution, but at the moment can't undertake anything, companies that should be doing are long-term. Pristina is practically a city full of mazes, as a result of high construction, without permission and without an urban plan. Labyrinettes create a heavy air condition in the town of Pristina. The high buildings create mazes where gases accumulate and the mist” creates, adds Doman.

On the other hand, the National Institute of Public Health today has announced that with high levels of air pollution in Kosovo, separately in Pristina, short-term effects lead to increasing the number of bronquial asts, chronic bronze, chronic lung obstructural diseases in procrastinators, increasing the number of hospital admissions from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, life cuts, and an increase in the mortality rate.

This institute proposes strategic measures, starting with the urgent implementation of the action plan signed by the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, then implementing national programmes and joint projects for the field of airport.

Meanwhile, the Kosovo government today has voted for the formation of an Interministerial Task Force in order to take special measures in air protection, but also to make decisions and strengthen administrative guidelines that are in force in environmental protection. /Periscope.