These diseases have increased due to pollution in Delhi, but why are patients not coming to the pollution clinic?

Last Updated:December 02, 2025, 17:51 IST

The pollution level in Delhi is still in very poor category. Many organs including breathing, heart, brain, kidney, liver and joints are being affected by bad air. A study by Gangaram Hospital has revealed that 50 percent of cancer patients in Delhi are non-cigarette smokers. The country’s first pollution clinic is running in RML Hospital, let us know how many patients are coming there?

Pollution is having a very bad effect on health. Pollution is affecting every part of the body, as well as affecting people of all ages. It is affecting the child even before birth. Respiratory diseases are increasing rapidly.

Delhi Very Poor AQI: The pollution level in Delhi is still in very poor category. Now poisonous air is not only affecting the breath and lungs but is affecting almost all the parts of the body. Even some recent studies are pointing out that breathing bad air is equivalent to smoking several cigarettes and is also causing the risk of cancer. In such a situation, pollution is no longer limited to respiratory diseases only but has progressed much further.

Dr. Amit Jindal is looking after the pollution clinic in RML Hospital. Told that the first and only pollution clinic is being operated in RML. Not only doctors from respiratory and pulmonary departments but also experts from cardiology and psychiatry departments sit in it. He said that the level of pollution in Delhi is still very high and AQI is still in the very poor category, but not a single patient came to the pollution clinic organized on Monday, December 1. Whereas on Tuesday morning, more than 100 patients were standing in front of him in the OPD of the Respiratory Department.

In such a situation, it is possible that pollution is not only causing respiratory and lung problems but is also having heart, neuro, rheumatological and psychological effects, but people are not aware that all these diseases can also be caused by bad air. This is the reason why patients are reaching the special OPD instead of getting treatment in the pollution clinic. Patients feel that only those suffering from respiratory problems have to go to the pollution clinic.

Dr. Jindal says that experts are present in this clinic for any type of disease caused by the effect of pollution, whether it is heart disease, eye diseases, mental or skin diseases. Some research also shows that breathing bad air and continuously inhaling pollutants and poisonous gases is affecting all the organs of the body including heart, brain, kidney, liver.

Cancer is happening without smoking, pollution can be the reason
Recently, the report of a study conducted for 30 years at the Center for Chest Surgery of Gangaram Hospital, Delhi, shows that the number of cancer patients in Delhi who do not smoke cigarettes is 50 percent. These people suffering from cancer had never smoked cigarettes. According to the study, in 2015 there were 63,700 cases across India, while in 2025 this number will increase to 81,200. This is directly related to the bad air and pollution of Delhi.

Joints also affected due to pollution
Doctors associated with the Indian Rheumatology Association say that pollution is having a very bad effect on the joints and people are suffering from diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. The problem of joint pain is increasing at an early age.