Concern: The number of patients at QKUK rise because of air pollution

As a result of the high degree of air pollution last week, the number of patients who have sought medical treatment at the Museum Hospital in Pristina has increased.

Pulmologist at the Museum Hospital at the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo (QKUK), Bahri Thaci, in a pronomation for the newspaper “Zri” has said that due to the high level of air pollution last week, the number of patients who have sought treatment at this clinic has increased.

According to him, air pollution affects the health of children and older ones.

Contaminated water affects patients extremely badly, especially affects young children, delayed age, and those with chronic lung diseases, mainly with bronk, tuberculosis diseases, and those with heart and blood vessels problems. It actually affects everyone, but it affects these categories more. So far it's been a good situation, it hasn't been very high pollution, but last week it's just beginning to notice that pollution has begun, because the deterioration of patients” has begun, he said.

Thaci has also shown some of the symptoms that surface as a result of air pollution.

The patients have but other symptoms, which are strengthened this season when it comes to air pollution. The coughing of the additional base is symptoms that have come to the deterioration, which most of the time causes polluted air”, he said.