If New Delhi has seen the foremost adverse pollution within the last couple of months due to multiple factors; allegedly acute thanks to stubble burning in its neighboring states like Punjab, Haryana, and Mumbai are following suit for a previous couple of weeks. The air quality dips to very poor from a mean ensuing number of health issues. Slow wind with a surprising coldness in the dark within the city steeping the pollution subjecting the town to the endless haze of smog. It’s been recorded that there's a prevailing spell of sniffing, cough and viral ailments across the demography.

Healthcare experts are of the opinion that three out of 5 cases of fever are thanks to viral infections and other people down with allergies and infections of the upper and tract. “An immediate result of this pollution is that areas like Bandra Kurla Complex, Borivali and Navi Mumbai have recorded to possess poor air quality,” said Dr. Gufram Baig, project director of System for air Quality and meteorology and Research (SAFAR). The official said that there are four categories of air quality, namely, good, moderate, poor and really poor and at the present Mumbai is within the poor category, he added.

Sharing a rare insight into things, Dr. Baig informs that the movement of air isn't very strong during the winter season and hence this is often not helping to detach the pollutants from the air. “Generally, strong air currents are useful in sweeping away the pollution and it brings relief to the town because we are on the brink of the ocean,” he explained. The flip side of the coastal city is that prime levels of humidity trap the pollutants in it and causes health problems to those susceptible to these conditions, he acknowledged.

Substantiating Dr. Baig’s observation, Dr. Shahid Barmare, consultant physician, Kohinoor Hospital, Kurla, said that there's an alarming increase within the number of patients affected by viral infections. “Further, around 10 percent of the population suffers from some quite allergy and most of them are suffering from this alteration of weather,” he said.

“The pollutants within the air tend to irritate the upper and lower tract and that they haven't any option but to require treatment for this,” he said. It’s advisable to require vaccination against viral infections since this helps in fighting off the disease to an outsized extent.