IIT Mandi Study: People of North Eastern States Are Vulnerable to Respiratory, Cancer and Lung Diseases
Research team of IIT Mandi - Photo: Diary Times
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People in India’s north-eastern states of Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh are at risk of respiratory, cancer and lung diseases and this risk is 57 times higher than that due to LPG. This has been revealed by the researchers of IIT Mandi.
According to the team of researchers, the risk of diseases is increasing due to the effect of biomass fuel in the North-Eastern states and this danger is inviting fatal diseases very fast.
The team of researchers also discovered that even today 50 percent of the population in these states is dependent on traditional fuels, due to which the amount of harmful aerosols in homes becomes very high, which is directly affecting our respiration. 29 to 79 percent of these aerosols are deposited directly into our respiratory system, increasing the risk of lung damage. In such a situation, there is a great need for the government and the people themselves in these states to take steps towards clean fuels in rural areas.
Researchers at IIT Mandi in collaboration with Institute INRS of France and National Physical Laboratory of India have conducted a comprehensive study on the harmful effects of air pollution caused by cooking methods using traditional fuels in rural kitchens in three states of North-East India.
A research team from IIT Mandi, including PhD researcher Bijay Sharma and Dr Sayantan Sarkar, assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and their colleagues have conducted this study in a series of three research papers.
In the entire research, the researchers tried to know how much health damage can be caused to the rural people of North-East India due to exposure to harmful particles and chemicals present in the air and to estimate how many people may die prematurely due to these diseases. And overall, how many years can he lose due to this?
Know what the researchers of IIT Mandi say –
Explaining the uniqueness of this research, Dr. Sayantan Sarkar, Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Mandi, said that our study provides real-time data to robustly estimate the impact of cooking emissions on the respiratory system. Combines measurements of aerosols in rural kitchens with dosimetry modeling.
In the North-Eastern states, protection can be done in this way –
Making LPG gas more accessible and making it available at cheaper rates, along with strengthening the distribution system, is needed in the North-Eastern states.
Use of better cookstoves that produce less smoke than traditional cookstoves, production of clean energy at the local level and organizing health camps for rural women should be encouraged.
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