CTP launches smog awareness campaign
Heart and breathing patients should take extra measures
PHOTO: REUTERS
RAWALPINDI:
City Traffic Police (CTP) have launched a smog awareness campaign to sensitise people of the twin cities to avoid any health or safety hazards during smog season.
According to a spokesman, the campaign has been launched on the special directives of City Traffic Officer (CTO) Muhammad Bin Ashraf with an aim to raise awareness about best practices to keep oneself safe and healthy during smog season.
In this regard, the teams distributed pamphlets and face masks among motorcyclists, motorists and pedestrians and urged them to avoid waste burning to control the smog formation to protect themselves from breathing problems, eye, nose and throat infections.
The teams briefed that heart and breathing patients should take extra measures to avoid any situation and use protected sunglasses while going outside could be helpful to avoid any sort of eye infection.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2019.
City Traffic Police (CTP) have launched a smog awareness campaign to sensitise people of the twin cities to avoid any health or safety hazards during smog season.
According to a spokesman, the campaign has been launched on the special directives of City Traffic Officer (CTO) Muhammad Bin Ashraf with an aim to raise awareness about best practices to keep oneself safe and healthy during smog season.
In this regard, the teams distributed pamphlets and face masks among motorcyclists, motorists and pedestrians and urged them to avoid waste burning to control the smog formation to protect themselves from breathing problems, eye, nose and throat infections.
The teams briefed that heart and breathing patients should take extra measures to avoid any situation and use protected sunglasses while going outside could be helpful to avoid any sort of eye infection.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2019.