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Over six hundred people have died as a result of poor air quality in this country, in one year. The shocking revelation was made today at a Symposium on Air Quality and Health, hosted by the Environmental Management Authority. Rynessa Cutting reports.
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00:13We need air to survive, but as it turns out, the very air we breathe could lead to our
00:19demise.
00:20It was estimated that 622 deaths in 2019 among people over 30 years old were attributable
00:31to particulate matter air pollution here in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:36The shocking revelation was further compounded by this statement from the Environmental Management
00:41Authority.
00:42According to the United Nations Environmental Programme, air pollution is the biggest environmental
00:48health risk of our time and over 99% of the population breathe unsafe air.
00:57Exposure can lead to stroke, heart, lung disease, cancer and many more ill effects.
01:04Polluted air kills 6.7 million people per year and 2.4 billion people are exposed to
01:13dangerous levels of household air pollution.
01:17Despite the local statistics, the WHO says TNT has one of the most extensive air quality
01:24monitoring systems in the region and notes that this country has ratified the Paris Agreement.
01:31Collaboration between the Ministry of Health, EMA and PAHO Doricho has enabled the training
01:37of health care workers in estimating the health impacts of air pollution and national assessment
01:44of air quality and health has been undertaken.
01:47Chief Medical Officer Dr. Roshan Parasram says there is still work to be done.
01:52I am Renessa Katting and this was Health Watch.
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