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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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
