{"id":59900,"date":"2023-11-17T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/17\/the-complete-of-our-young-india-counts-cost-of-another-polluting-diwali-on-a-generation-of-children"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:00:36","slug":"the-complete-murder-of-our-young-india-counts-cost-of-another-polluting-diwali-on-a-generation-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59900","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The complete murder of our young\u2019: India counts cost of another polluting Diwali on a generation of children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s hospital tells the story<\/p>\n<p>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. \u201cThis time, the doctors say he will probably need to be admitted. The last two times, they gave him an injection,\u201d says Ram.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Pinki, and her sister squat in the corridor of Kalawati Saran children\u2019s hospital in the Indian capital, New Delhi, while Ram talks to a doctor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/17\/the-complete-of-our-young-india-counts-cost-of-another-polluting-diwali-on-a-generation-of-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s hospital tells the storyIt is the third time in a week that Pankaj Ram, a construction work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,1991,353,65,59,566,62,466,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-childrens-health","category-delhi","category-environment","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-pollution","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59901,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59900\/revisions\/59901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}