Scientists to study impact of air pollution on tuberculosis

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Posted at: Nov 24, 2018, 12:16 AM; last updated: Nov 24, 2018, 12:16 AM (IST)
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Ambika Sharma

Tribune News Service

Solan, November 23

The Department of Environment has assigned a project on the assessment of air pollution vis-à-vis environmental amelioration and its impact on tuberculosis (TB) management in industrial and residential settings of Solan to scientists of the Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni.

The university’s department of environmental sciences has been awarded this project for a term of two years. Prof Satish Bhardwaj, head of the department, said they had been working on the project since February. Besides visiting Baddi, an assessment of TB patients was being undertaken. 

He said they were assessing the relation of indoor and ambient air quality on tuberculosis patients.  An environmental  amelioration  would be undertaken to assess its effect on the air quality index and tuberculosis management.

Professor Bhardwaj said since an elaborate study on the air quality had been undertaken on the district  by scientists of IIT-Kanpur recently, its results would be used as a reference, though university scientists were also assessing the air quality on their own. 

Dr Ajay Kumar, co-principal investigator of the project, said 300 houses in two panchayats had been covered with the  help of four health workers.  Apart from studying the disease profile of TB patients,  an effort was being made to improve the internal environment of these households to contain the disease. 

Plants had also  been identified for the same.



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