Over 100 people have thus far received treatment at this clinic

Dec 19, 2013 19:56 GMT  ·  By

News from China says that a so-called smog clinic is now up and running in the country's Sichuan Province. The clinic opened his past December 9 at the No. 7 People's Hospital and Chengdu City, and its sole purpose is to make it easier for people to deal with the air pollution crisis China is currently facing. 

Information shared with the public says that, since the clinic first opened until present day, over 100 people have received treatment for air pollution-related health issues at this facility.

Most of these people displayed symptoms such as sore throats, runny noses and coughs, local media reports explain.

According to specialists, these health problems are all due to the fact that people in China are now exposed to loads of harmful air pollutants and fine particulate matter.

Niu Weiyi, the current director of the clinic department at the No. 7 People's Hospital's says that, until this smog clinic opened, people who developed various health issues as a result of the country's air pollution crisis were treated at several different facilities that only targeted one problem at the time.

Thus, they had to visit separate pneumology, ear-nose-throat and cardiovasology clinics in order to feel better, Xinhua reports.

Thanks to the smog clinic, patients no longer have to embark on a quest to different parts of the hospital in order to receive treatment for their symptoms.

Apart from treating folks affected by air pollution, the doctors and nurses working at this clinic teach people what they can do to keep themselves and their family safe from the pollutants and the fine particulate matter hovering over the country.

Although the news that a clinic meant to tackle smog-related health problems has opened in China is undeniably a good one, the fact remains that the country must work towards solving its air pollution crisis altogether and not settle for trying to patch things up in this manner.

More so given the fact that, as the World Health Organization has pointed out, air pollutants and fine particulate matter don't just give people runny noses, sore throats and really annoying coughs. On the contrary, both can cause cancer.