Photo: APIn Serbia, polluting substances lead to about 11.000 premature deaths every year. An air protection program that offers a number of solutions to this problem was drafted last year, but was never adopted
The air protection program in Serbia from 2022 to 2030 was drawn up at the end of last year, but it has not yet been adopted.
True, recent statements by the Minister of Energy, Zorana Mihajlović, about the energy transition indicate a greater interest of state representatives in the impact of pollution on the health of citizens, but there are no concrete activities.
The Air Protection Program in Serbia from 2022 to 2030 is a document that for the first time comprehensively maps the impact of air pollution.
The results are devastating.
For example, in Serbia, polluting substances lead annually to about 11.000 premature deaths, to almost 14.000 hospitalizations due to respiratory and cardiovascular problems, and the number of deaths that occur within a few days due to exposure to polluted air is 461.
Polluted air causes multi-day exacerbations of asthma in children. Over 22.000 new cases of bronchitis among children aged six to 12 are registered annually.
In 2019, more than three million citizens of Serbia lived in areas where the air was too polluted.
The document offers a series of scenarios that could lead to a reduction in air pollution and how each of them would mitigate the negative consequences of poor air quality.
The study states that "the health benefits in all scenarios are greater than the total costs of the measures proposed in the scenarios and divided by years, which means that the realization of the costs for implementing the scenarios is economically reliable and justified."
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