00:00 It's so difficult to breathe. If we don't get good air quality, where will we live?
00:05 I have breathing problems.
00:07 But now it's so bad that even when I walk a little, I breathe a lot.
00:13 And I feel like I should sit there.
00:16 One day, he suddenly had breathing problems in the morning.
00:20 Then we took him and ran away.
00:21 Then we got admitted here in an emergency.
00:24 It is not surprising if in the coming years we will call Delhi the capital city of cancer.
00:31 With such air quality and continuous constant exposure in the coming 10 to 20 years,
00:36 the cancer cases will be very high.
00:39 Of course, the lifespan will keep on decreasing.
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00:55 You can actually feel it in the air.
00:57 It's heavy and hard to breathe in.
01:00 India's capital Delhi is once again in the grips of winter air pollution crisis
01:06 with AQI readings more than 20 times the WHO safe limit.
01:11 The annual catastrophe making global headlines has posed a significant health hazard
01:17 to the 35 million residents of the city
01:20 who are forced to breathe the toxic air for months at a time, year on year.
01:26 This toxic smog enveloping the city has become a part of life for many,
01:34 leaving them with health issues that range from visible symptoms like lingering cough
01:40 to hidden but deadly diseases like cancer.
01:44 With temperatures plunging to nighttime lows that can near freezing
01:52 and pollution levels remaining in the worst severe categories for days at a time,
01:58 authorities in the city have issued a health advisory to the public.
02:02 The warning of lung related health impacts due to the cold wave combined with dense smog.
02:10 The most severely affected by the pollution are those who are already suffering with lung and cardiovascular diseases.
02:17 Doctors say there is a sharp uptick in patients who are being admitted to the hospital
02:23 and some requiring ICU care.
02:25 The independent Wizards Delhi's Akash Hospital and speaks to some of these patients.
02:32 The patients say they have been coughing relentlessly and the pollution is only making their situation worse.
02:38 The pollution is making their situation worse.
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03:30 The number of cases that we usually see during the non-winter days are like around 5 to 6 patients in a day
03:39 who come with flare up of their pre-existing respiratory disease like asthma and COPD.
03:45 But since Diwali, since November, the number of cases has increased by almost 2 to 3 folds.
03:51 Now the patients are coming with complaint of not just increase in their respiratory symptoms,
03:57 that is asthma and COPD, the number of infective cases have also rised.
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05:06 So far all the interventions by the court and the government have proved futile.
05:12 And it remains to be seen how long the silent killer will continue to haunt the people of Delhi.
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