‘Leave Delhi if you can’: Advises Ex-AIIMS pulmonologist as air quality worsens

Dr Khilnani has particularly advised the elderly and those with chronic lung disease or chronic heart disease to take this ‘severe’ air quality seriously and do the needful. They must leave the city, if they can for at least 6 to 8 weeks.

New Delhi: The Air Quality Index (AQI) of the National Capital has been ‘poor’ and ‘very poor’ during the last week with the ‘very poor’ category today on Sunday morning.

Keeping in view the deteriorating air quality across Delhi with ‘severe’ in some areas, a former All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Senior pulmonologist Dr Gopi Chand Khilnani has advised the Delhi residents to leave the city for at least six to eight weeks or relocate, if they can afford. Dr Khilnani has particularly advised the elderly and those with chronic lung disease or chronic heart disease to take this ‘severe’ air quality seriously and do the needful.

In the morning in some areas including Anand Vihar, Chandni Chowk, Nehru Nagar, RK Puram, Rohini and many other areas recorded an AQI of over 400 which is considered to be ‘severe’.

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