Many people suffer from ENT due to air pollution

The World Health Organization (WHO) in May announced that 90% of the world's population is breathing polluted air. Each year about 7 million people die from exposure to dust. More than 90% of deaths occur in low- or middle-income countries in Asia and Africa.

About 1.7 million children worldwide die from contact. The Quality Index Report (EPI) made by Yale University (USA) ranks Vietnam in the 10 most polluted countries in the world.

Air pollution causes many respiratory diseases.(Photo: HH).

Health experts recommend that air pollution is a major cause of general respiratory and ENT conditions in particular . In Vietnam, respiratory disease and ENT are top of the list of 5 diseases with the highest number of sufferers. Next is the disease caused by childbirth and postpartum, circulatory diseases, digestive system, infectious and parasitic diseases.

Reported at the ENT conference 2018 on the morning of October 22, Trung Chung Mai Hong Bang, Director of 108 Central Military Hospital, said that the ear, nose and throat sector is developing strongly with many new treatments. and effective. However, ENT is still a burden for society. Sinusitis, otitis, chronic pharyngitis, laryngeal, deafness and hearing loss . are obsessions for patients and physicians, even for countries with advanced medicine.

There are many methods for treating ENT diseases such as endoscopic surgery, imaging techniques, screw-on electrodes implantation techniques, application of molecular biotechnology .