- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his doctors wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing some of the world’s dirtiest air. Smog is blamed for the deaths of more than one million Indians every year and Delhi – which on Monday (5) had emergency pollution levels more than 35 times the World Health Organization (WHO) safe limit – has the worst air of any global capital. Every November, hospital wards fill with gasping patients as the tell-tale thick grey haze which hit on Monday shrouds the city of 20 million. “Delhi air is like a death sentence for him,” said Srinivas K Gopinath, a…
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