New Delhi: A public health emergency was declared in New Delhi Tuesday as a choking cover of smog hits capital city. The Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) declaration came as the US embassy website said levels of the fine pollutants known as PM2.5 that are most harmful to health reached 703 well over double the threshold of 300 that authorities class as hazardous.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tweeted “Delhi has become a gas chamber. Every year this happens during this part of year. We have to find a soln to crop burning in adjoining states”. Kejriwal today asked his deputy and Education Minister Manish Sisodia to consider shutting schools for a few days in view of the high pollution in the city.
“We have declared a state of public health emergency in Delhi since pollution is at an alarming level ,” the head of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Krishan Kumar Aggarwal said.