Air pollution a silent killer

Don’t you know that air pollution is a soft and silent killer?

Ask doctors and they’ll show you records that the air we breathe is slowly and silently killing us.

With thousands of tons of particulates, chemicals and other pollutants emitted daily by millions of vehicles, hundreds of factories and households, problems of respiratory tract infections will never go down.

Quoting a news service, Pro-Life Philippines said studies of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Program show that Metro Manila’s air is one of the five dirtiest and most polluted in the world.

In March 1999, the British journal quoted Dr. Miguel Celdran, a pediatrician at the Makati Medical Center, as saying that about 90 percent of his patients have respiratory illnesses.

Babies as young as two months old, he said, are suffering from asthma.

Reports like these are quite alarming but the government can still address the problem by lessening, if not totally eradicating air pollution.

With this, Inventionhaus International Corp. (ICC) has reiterated its call for the government to use the gas-saving and environment-friendly device of Pablo Planas, the Filipino inventor who started from a jeepney-operator and mechanic.

Planas said other countries would not recognize his Khaos Turbo Charger (KSTC) for nothing.

And since air pollution is attributed more to motor vehicles, Planas’ invention will make the difference.

Vehicles fitted with KSTC will avail of the zero-smoke emission the gadget offers.

And once adapted to majority if not all of the motor vehicles, then the problem of air pollution is already half-solved, Planas assured.