[Stoves] News: Nigeria records 65, 000 deaths annually due to air pollution – Saraki

[abraham abyslo]

Look well into this. It must be most underestimated figure in the health
sector.

On Wednesday, November 29, 2017, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> A thoroughly untenable statement in the headline. Nigeria records 65, 000
deaths annually due to air pollution – Saraki The Nation (Nigeria) 28
October 2017
>
> The text has a half-way appropriate line - "In Nigeria, household air
pollution is the third most significant risk factor for health after
malaria and HIV/Aids, killing almost 65, 000 people every year – more than
half of whom are children."
>
> If a Nigeria Burden of Disease study has been completed. If the numbers
are borrowed from WHO "data", they are spurious.
>
> The environment minister is hopeful that "the new gas policy would reduce
the trend of deforestation, usage of fuel woods and promote clean energy."
>
> "Reduce the trend of deforestation" may depend on other aspects of land
and forest policy, from ownership and sale to non-cooking use of felled
wood.
>
> Nikhil
>
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