Air pollution This year alone in the UK will be associated with around 30,000 deaths, with 99 percent of the population “toxic air”, with major doctors warning.
There is no “safe level” of air pollution, which negatively affects almost every part of the body, according to a new report Royal college of physician (RCP).
Emissions have decreased significantly in recent decades, even low concentrations of air pollution can affect fetal development, cancer, Heart disease, ShockMental health status and DementiaThe report warns.
Doctors estimate that the cost and productivity loss of air pollution is an economic cost of £ 27bn in a year if it increases to £ 50BN, taking into account the comprehensive effects like dementia.
More than 100 doctors, nurses, patients and activists will march for children from the Great Omand Street Hospital on Thursday to give a letter to the government to give a letter to “ambitious” to the government. Aeroity Target.
“Air pollution can no longer be seen as an environmental issue – this is a public health crisis,” RCP President Dr. Mumtaz Patel said.
“We are losing the lives of thousands of people every year, which is mostly stopped and the financial cost is a price that we can not just pay.
“We will not accept 30,000 preventionable deaths for any other reason. We need to treat clean air with the same seriousness we treat clean water or safe food. It is a basic human right – and an important investment in our economic future.”
In a rehearsal for report, Professor Sir, Chief Medical Officer of England Chris Whity Warned that air pollution remains the most important environmental threat to health, which makes people feel an impact during life.
Prof. Sir Chris said: “This is a region of health where Britain has made adequate progress with many concentrations of the main in the last three decades. pollution Falling rapidly, but it remains a major cause of premature mortality along with chronic sick health.
“If we decide to make it, there will be further progress in outdoor air pollution, but especially without heating, transportation and practical and obtained changes. The air pollution affects everyone, and everyone’s business is.”
Come into contact with air pollution can reduce people’s lives by 1.8 years – which “lags behind the world for some major causes of death and disease”, including cancer and smoking, states.
A previous study by the UK Health Security Agency in 2022 estimated that air pollution was responsible for 29,000 to 43,000 deaths a year in the UK in adults over 30 years of age.
The RCP estimates that it will be linked to 30,000 stopping deaths this year, below the estimated 40,000 in 2016.
The report states that air pollution is unevenly distributed in the UK exposure to pollution. While there is high concentrations of traffic related pollution in urban areas, rural places often experience air pollution associated with specific activities, such as solid fuel or wood burning, agriculture, road transport, or forest and heathland fire.
Research conducted by City Hall in 2023 found that ethnic minority and poorest families Living in London regions was most likely to live With the most dangerous polluted air.
RCP is urging ministers to recognize air pollution As a major public health issue“, with Asthma And lung UK charity is also among those inviting hard clean air laws.
A new survey of charity suggests that one of the five people with lung conditions potentially faced a serious provocative of the disease as a result of the threat to life and air pollution.
According to the survey, more than 8,000 UK patients with lung conditions said that air pollution had exhaled to breathe them.
Sara Sleet, the chief executive of the charity, said, “For millions of people living with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), air pollution can be fatal, yet many people are unaware of this toll on the health of the country.”
“Toxic air is a major driver of respiratory conditions and can trigger lung cancer and asthma attacks, as well as enhancing symptoms such as provocative of lung conditions such as COPD, breathing, wheezing and cough.
“Despite the huge personal and financial costs of air pollution, the government has not yet shown political will to deal with this crisis.”
And an expert from Southampton warned that the nation could run in the “microplastics-style crisis”.
Advisor Respiratory Physician at University Hospital Southampton. Thom Daniel said: “While outdoor air pollution is widely recognized and understood, the dangers of indoor air pollution are largely ignored-and I am worried that we are sleeping in another microplastics-style crisis if we do not work anymore.”
Next month, a cross-party group of MPs Hope to resume a bill The purpose of which is to make clean air human rights under the UK law, and ministers are required to get clean air across England by 2030. Green MP Sian Berry will introduce the bill to Commons on 1 July.
“Ella’s law” was dubbed, proposed law The name of Ella is named after Adu-Koi-DebrahWho lived only at meters from the busy south circular road in Louisham and died at the age of nine after suffering from the deadly asthma attack in February 2013.
She became the first person to listen to air pollution as the cause of death After a landmark inquiry In 2020.
