Thursday, October 01, 2015

Mayor of Indonesian city orders all babies to be evacuated due to extreme air pollution ('haze') caused by raging man-made forest fires...

Singapore and Malaysia are currently suffering from severe haze caused by raging forest fires taking place in the Indonesian regions of Sumatra and Kalimantan, which has led to school closures, flight cancellations and, most seriously, health damage due to incredibly high air pollution levels.

Politicians from neighboring countries are angry at the Indonesian government not doing enough to stop the the haze that is hurting their citizens. But many Indonesians are also suffering greatly from the intense pollution, not the least of which are the citizens of Pekanbaru, in Sumatra’s Riau province, where air pollution levels have been recorded at a staggering 1000 PSI (PSI levels of 300 are already considered hazardous to health)

Nobody is more vulnerable to the effects of air pollution than infants, which is why Pekanbaru Mayor Firdaus yesterday ordered that all of the city’s infants under six months of age, particularly those from poor families, be evacuated to the Mayor’s Office, where a special emergency nursery has been set up.

 Firdaus said the babies of poor families were especially at risk, as their homes tended to provide little protection against the air pollution. Full story...

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