40,068: Number of patients with respiratory problems PGIMER recorded last year

Dr Behera says the Chandigarh Administration has to take some initiatives to contain the increasing pollution. “The number of vehicles is increasing which is becoming a source of pollution in the city. It may be difficult for the administration to put some kind of restrictions on the sale of new vehicles. But they check the emission coming from vehicles in the city,” he says, adding that the pollution is impacting the health of people.

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Dr A K Janmeja, head of pulmonary medicine, GMCH, Sector 32, believes that compared to last year, there is a little increase in the number of patients coming with respiratory ailments to the hospital this year. “But we need to find out if the number is increasing because of weather change or rising pollution. A study is very much needed for the city,” he says.

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At the GMSH-16, doctors say the patient number has not increased. “The weather has now changed. Every year, there is a rise in the patients who come to us with asthmatic problems, chest congestion or other pulmonary ailments when the weather starts changing,” says a doctor at the department of medicine, GMSH-16. “We are not witnessing any emergency-like situation.”

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