IK HOP: If urgent measures are taken to air pollution, there will be increased mortality!

The National Institute of Public Health as the highest health, scientific and professional institution consistently investigates the impact of environmental factors on population health, propose and make professional decisions, and recommend competent institutions to eliminate detected shortcomings and their harmful health impact.

This institute, published on the official page, has informed the opinion of the causes of air pollution, which may threaten health when in the winter season, Pristina is sinking into smog that represents combined pollution of gas and aerosole that is seen everywhere.

Full notification:

PM2.5 values during winter are expected to be several times above normal values.

The short-term effects of partisans on partisans lead to an increase in the number of bronkial asthma patients, chronic bonds, chronic lung obstructural diseases in later ages, increased hospital admissions from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, life cuts, and increased mortality rates.

As potentially well-known sources are electric power plants, the use of heating in winter season, outdated vehicles and heavy traffic, increased fuel and solid fuels, burning waste, use of pesticides, lack of sufficient green surfaces, no cleaning of roads, construction for the whole year without plan of urbanity, the city's dream of dust.

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

Analyzing the current situation and predicting that we will face the same state of air pollution this year,

National Institute, proposes the following:

A. Strategic measures:

1. It is urgent to compile an action plan for improving air quality, especially in the capital.

2. Adoption and transmission of air legislation in line with EU directives and WHO standards.

3. Implementation of national programmes and joint projects for the field of airport.

B. Specific measures:

4. Emergencyly remove old cars and cars without catalysts.
5. Environmental inspectors make rigorous control of fuel quality and the consumption of fossil fuels used for citizen heating.
6. Enhancing the number of buses with ecological fuel in public transport.
7. Enhancing green surfaces in urban areas.
8. Measurement of contamination at key points in Kosovo and daily presentation of online results.

C. Individual measures (healthal events for population) when air has high levels of pollution

1. 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;
2. Stay at home, and don't open the windows for the ventilation of the rooms until the high wicks are long.
3. 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.
4. To reduce smoking abroad where there is human circulation, and necessarily the ban on smoking within residential spaces, employment, schools and hospitals.
5. 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.