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Air Pollution Kills 15,000 Annually in Bangladesh: World Bank
The World Bank says Bangladesh could avoid 15-thousand deaths and save up to 800 million dollars a year if air pollution in four major cities was reduced to acceptable limits, an Australian press reports Feb.7.
Paul Martin, an environmental specialist at the bank's Dhaka office, says the major disease in Bangladesh is acute respiratory infections caused mainly by polluted air.
Mr Martin says improving air quality would also reduce the 850 million minor illnesses, not requiring treatment, caused by pollution and affecting 6.5 million people.
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