Air pollution is on the rise in Bengaluru: 1127 heart attacks in eight months
Bengaluru, November 2: With the every passing day, Bengaluru, the Capital City of Karnataka is staggering under increasing air pollution. In the last eight months, total 1127 heart attack cases were reported from Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology in the city.
In Canada, only 1100 heart attack cases were reported in last eight years. Unfortunately, within eight months, Bengaluru city has recorded 1127 heart attack cases, according to sources.
Sources said that the increasing emission of carbon dioxide from the vehicles has caused air pollution resulting in heart attack cases. Earlier causes for the heart attacks were majorly high blood pressure and diabetes. But now, air pollution is also causing the heart attacks, according to researchers.
This shocking revelation came to know with a study from a team called Climate Trends, comprising of the members of various voluntary organizations. The cause of air pollution was restricted to cough, asthma and lungs related diseases. But the carbon dioxide, emitted from the vehicles, is causing the heart attacks, the sources said.
How air pollution causes?
Last year, they have taken 1200 patients for a study. Of them, 10 per cent were suffering from high blood pressure and 10 per cent from diabetes and remaining 80 per cent patients did not have any major diseases. Total 48 persons were smoking and remaining patients, without having any bad habits, died of heart attacks. When the team studied the reasons for such heart attacks, it was shocked to notice that most of them were auto drivers who did not have any major health problems. But they were spending most of their times in travelling in the city. In congested places, people would not use ACs. As a result, the carbon dioxide from the vehicles would directly enter the body. This has led to alarming rate of heart attack cases in the city, according to Dr Rahul Patil who studied the reasons.
Other diseases are also on the rise
Not only heart attacks, but diabetes, autism, mental retardation and other diseases were increased due to high rate of air pollution. But it is difficult to say the numbers. More than 25 per cent of children have been suffering from Asthma, the doctor said.
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'Someone must be held accountable': HC converts civil suit on Goa nightclub tragedy into PIL
Panaji (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Monday converted a civil suit against Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub into a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) saying "someone has to be held accountable" for the tragedy in which 25 people were killed.In a stern observation, Goa bench of the High Court of Justices Sarang Kotwal and Ashish Chavan said the local panchayat had "failed to take suo motu cognisance" of the club and had taken "no action despite complaints."
The division bench directed the Goa government to file a detailed reply on the permissions granted to the nightclub.
The High Court, while fixing January 8 as the next date of hearing, pointed out that commercial operations were continuing in the structure despite it having been served a demolition order.
The original petition was filed after the December 6 tragedy by Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar and Sunil Divkar, the owners of the land on which the nightclub was operating.
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Advocate Rohit Bras de Sa, the lawyer representing the petitioner, was made amicus curiae in the matter and has been asked to file a detailed affidavit in the matter.
In their petition, Amonkar and Divkar highlighted "the alarming pattern of statutory violations that have remained inadequately addressed despite multiple complaints, inspections, show-cause notices, and even a demolition order".
They contended that these violations posed "immediate threats to public safety, ecological integrity, and the rule of law in the state of Goa."
Investigations by multiple agencies into the nightclub fire have revealed various irregularities, including lack of permissions to operate the nightclub.
The Goa police arrested five managers and staff members of the club, while co-owners Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra have been detained in Thailand after they fled the country.
