The polluted cloud surrounding the central city, the territory, affects each resident, but its kids are counting the most significant impact of the city's deteriorating condition and constant environmental issue
In no place is this more pronounced than at pediatricians' offices
In a filled waiting zone adjacent to the physician's examination room, distressed parents lined up patiently with youngsters undergoing sneezing, displaying coughing or exhibiting lung complications
Contaminated airborne pollutants functions as a frequent predicament in the capital and within districts of the northern area
There lacks a sole reason activating the challenge, but a mix of considerations like slower air currents, factory pollutants, automotive emissions, reducing temperatures and the annual burning of agricultural waste
Emerging from the last month, The municipality's Environmental Quality Index - which monitors different types of hazardous substances, taking in the concentration of minute contaminants PM2.5 that can clog breathing organs - has been hovering between 300 and 400
This constitutes higher than twenty instances the limit suggested by the Global Healthcare Organization
Levels surpassing 400 affect all robust people and greatly affect those with current diseases
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Maya Chen is an urban planner and writer with over a decade of experience in sustainable city development and community engagement.