Artificial set of lungs installed in Lucknow turns black in 24 hours
A white model of lungs was installed at the Jhandi Park near Nagar Nigam office on Thursday which turned black on Friday. The same set of lungs took six days to turn black in the highly polluted Delhi.
Lucknow: Pointing towards highly polluted and toxic air in Lucknow city, the white model of lungs was installed at the Jhandi Park near Nagar Nigam office on Thursday which turned black on Friday. The same model took six days to turn black in the national capital.
According to a report in the Hindustan Times (HT), the situation pointed out towards the highly toxic air the citizens are breathing. Ekta Shekher, the founder of The Climate Agenda, an NGO, which installed the artificial lungs told HT that they thought the model of lungs will take at least six days to change colour, as it happened in New Delhi, but here (in Lucknow) it just took 24 hours. The AQI (Air Quality Index) was 320 on the installation day, which was very poor air quality, she added.
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Meanwhile, the Prof Surya Kant, Head of the department respiratory medicine department of KGMU told the newspaper that it was a wake-up call for the government and the people, too. We have to be alert to the quality of the air we breathe.
Reportedly, the artificial lungs had high-efficiency particulate absorber filters, with fans installed behind the, that environmental air through the filter.
Meanwhile, Ekta added that the eight feet by 12 feet artificial lungs, made of HEPA filter, have given a strong message in just a day. She further added that reports claimed, we lost more than 2,60,000 lives in Uttar Pradesh and nationally more than 12 lakh in the year 2017 just because of air pollution and it was time we focus on the air we breathe.