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Delhi pollution: Patients gasp for oxygen amid respiratory emergency, ICUs
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 3 (ANI): The national capital is witnessing public health emergency with hundreds of patients having respiratory problems being shifted to intensive care units (ICUs) by their pulmonologists because of the worsening air quality in the city, including the general war
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Public health emergency in NCR a matter of serious concern for all: Khatta
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], Nov 2 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday wrote a letter to Union Minister Prakash Javadekar thanking him for his consent to convene a meeting and invite Chief Ministers of Delhi and adjoining states over the issue of pollution in the N
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Here's how to survive from hazardous air pollution in Delhi
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 2 (ANI): As the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority has declared a public health emergency in the national capital in view of the abysmal air quality index, the experts feel that people should take certain precautions to protect their health.
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Delhi air quality turns hazardous: Here's how to survive the choking pollu
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 1 (ANI): With the air quality index in Delhi entering the Severe Plus category and the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority declaring a public health emergency, experts have advised people to urgently take steps to protect their health.
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Public health emergency declared in Delhi-NCR as air quality becomes 'haza
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 1 (ANI): After air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR crossed "hazardous" category, Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority on Friday declared a public health emergency.
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Delhi's air pollution is public health emergency, worse is yet to come: do
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 18 (ANI): With two weeks to go for Diwali, the air quality in the national capital has started to deteriorate. On Friday, air quality forecast remained between 200 to 300 levels at various locations in Delhi.
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Bangladesh: Dengue death toll increases from 68 to 75
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept 24 (ANI): The death toll over dengue has increased from 68 to 75 in Bangladesh, said Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday.
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'No such condition to declare 'Health Emergency' in Nepal after dengue out
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Sept 19 (ANI): Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister Upendra Yadav has claimed that there is no such condition to declare "Health Emergency" in the country following the dengue outbreak.
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Telangana govt should declare health emergency: BJP state president on out
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Telangana (Hyderabad) [India], Sep 7 (ANI): Telangana BJP State president Dr K Laxman on Saturday expressed concern over the outbreak of dengue and malaria and said that the state government should declare a health emergency.
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Congo's Ebola outbreak declared 'Public Health Emergency of International
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kinshasa [DR Congo], July 18 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), calling on countries to "take notice and redouble...efforts."
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Public health emergency declared in Brooklyn amidst measles outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], Apr 9 (ANI): A public health emergency has been declared in Williamsburg here due to a measles outbreak, with 300 cases being recorded until now, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Breathing polluted air directly linked to lung cancer: Experts
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 8 (ANI): On the morning of November 8, Delhi reached the alarming mark of 999 on the air quality index, a score which is labelled as 'severe', and which forced the Delhi government to declare a public health emergency in the city.
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