Air pollution, Children's health, Delhi, Environment, Global development, Global health, India, Pollution, South and Central Asia
‘The complete murder of our young’: India counts cost of another polluting Diwali on a generation of children
One in three children in Delhi is already asthmatic, with many more at risk of organ damage from breathing noxious air. A crowded waiting room at one children’s hospital tells the story
It is the third time in a week that Pankaj Ram, a construction worker, has lost wages because he has had to take his 18-month-old son, Ankit, to hospital, with breathing difficulties. “This time, the doctors say he will probably need to be admitted. The last two times, they gave him an injection,” says Ram.
His wife, Pinki, and her sister squat in the corridor of Kalawati Saran children’s hospital in the Indian capital, New Delhi, while Ram talks to a doctor.
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