Alongside capital city Delhi's ever-worsening air quality, India's financial capital Mumbai has also been battling with an unprecedented level of air pollution. Back on Sunday, as per media reports, Mumbai featured in the list of the world's most polluted cities.
Moreover, as a consequence of the exacerbating AQI, the city was compelled to set up a dedicated Intensive Respiratory Care Unit in a bid to attend to patients with respiratory issues.
What is taking us by surprise is the fact that Mumbai is facing this adversity despite it's geographically convenient location along the coastline and being surrounded by water on three sides. which leads to strong winds blowing away most of the pollutants in the air.
Mumbai's Intensive Respiratory Care Unit
Acording to a report by NDTV, the Global Hospitals has set up a dedicated special respiratory ICU in Central Mumbai's Parel.
According to the people privy with the surge in respiratory trouble in Mumbai, the cases have doubled in the past six months.
As per the report, when asked about the staus quo, Dr Prashant Borade, Director, Department of Critical Care, Global Hospitals said that, in the past few months, they have been seeing patients who are reporting breathlessness even after getting cured of a lung infection. These patients are then diagnosed with inflammation in their lungs or hyperacute airway diseases.
According to Dr. Borade, nearly 50%, or one in two, of all patients with such symptoms who are visiting the Outpatient Department are having to be admitted for at least one or two days. Almost 30% are needing admission to the ICU, he said, adding that cases of lung cancer are also rising.
