If you leave Kathmandu City.Other city and all Nepal has good rank
against pollution. Kathmandu's air pollution is beyond the point of
acceptance at dry season.“In Asia, urban air pollution in many cities
rivals the levels that existed during the first decades of the 20th
century in Europe and North America and account for a large proportion
of global health burden in relation to air pollution,” she says.
“Although air pollution and human health have been extensively studied
in the West, there are important limitations to extrapolating health
effects based on Western cities to developing Asian cities. “Studies in
places like Kathmandu are important where rapid urbanization is leading
to considerable deterioration of air quality.”Nepal’s air quality ranks
177th out of 178 countries, according to Yale’s 2014 Environmental
Performance Index (EPI), better only than Bangladesh. As a physician
working in one of Kathmandu’s main teaching hospitals, I see a
disproportionate amount of patients with respiratory ailments who are
admitted to the wards on a daily basis, the victims of dirty air.
Walking to and from work along the crowded, exhaust-choked streets, I
sometimes wonder how more people are not sick.
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