Bangalore: Improving health quality requires not only developing healthcare infrastructure, but also maintaining our surrounding pollution free, asserted Member of parliament and former Director of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Dr C.N. Manjunath here today.

Inaugurating a day long Net Zero Summit held in Bangalore by the Centre for Sustainable Development, he said that three types of pollution, air, water and sand pollutions pose huge challenge for the public health. Many thing that air pollution cases respiratory problems. But studies show that pollutant particles of less than 2.5 mg if inhaled can cause heart attacks and strokes. Hence it is important to maintain our surroundings clean and pollution free to live healthy, he added.

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