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2L Pollution-Linked Respiratory Cases Between 2022-24

August 22, 2025

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More than two lakh patients with acute respiratory illnesses reported to emergency departments and over 30,000 required hospitalization between 2022 and 2024 at six central hospitals in Delhi, including AIIMS, Safdarjung and RML with air pollution suspected as a major cause, revealed data shared by the parliament.

- ASHISH SRIVASTAVA @ New Delhi

According to the data shared by Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Prataprao Jadhav in the Rajya Sabha, the national capital recorded 68,411 cases of ARI in hospitals' emergency in 2024. Of them, 10,819 required hospitalization. The data also revealed that 69,293 such patients were logged in 2023 and 67,054 in 2022.

Meanwhile, hospitalization remained at 9,727 and 9,828 in 2023 and 2022 respectively.

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