Another compelling reason for govt to stop air pollution
THE finding of a research published in the Lancet in January saying that air pollution has a huge bearing on pregnancy loss, which includes stillbirth and miscarriage, is gravely worrying. The research says that air pollution might have accounted for 29 per cent of the pregnancy loss in Bangladesh — which was listed as the most polluted country for fine particle exposure in the 2019 World Air Quality Report — India and Pakistan. The research surveyed 34,197 women of the region who suffered pregnancy loss, which includes 27,480 events of miscarriage and 6,717 events of stillbirth. The research establishes 77 per cent of the pregnancy loss to have taken place in India, 12 per cent in Pakistan and 11 per cent in Bangladesh. It says that about 178 million, or 25.5 per cent, of 698 million children born globally in 2010–2015 were born in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and 9,17,800, or 35.0 per cent, of 26,20,000 stillbirth took place in the three countries. The actual threat could be higher as the research is said not to have dealt with the under-reporting of pregnancy loss because of either social stigma or the ignoring of the pregnancy loss that took place in early gestational stages.
newagebd.net
Jan 10, 2021
