Begusarai's PM2.5 concentration stood out at 118.9 micrograms per cubic meter, marking a significant increase from the previous year. Delhi's air quality also deteriorated, with PM2.5 levels rising from 89.1 to 92.7 micrograms per cubic meter.
Globally , at least half of all people do not receive health services they need. Over 996 million people spend at least 10% of their household income on health care. In 2017, around 299 million people in the Region faced catastrophic health spending, and an estimated 117 million people in the Region were pushed or further pushed below the purchasing power parity poverty line of US$ 1.90 a day.
On Sunday, a layer of haze blanketed Delhi, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) remaining in the'very bad' category and the lowest temperature remaining at 8°C.
An easy-to-use novel symptom-based screening method has been developed by a group of researchers associated with the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) to identify the risk of asthma in children as young as two years old.