Health

China city traffic cops given 43 years to live
by Delia Cruceru

The Chinese Government reported yesterday that city traffic police have an average life expectancy of just 43 years due to their dire working conditions. According to a survey of 8 Chinese cities police officers who had worked the streets for more than 20 years were the most at risk. One year distance from the Olympic Games, authorities try to clean up their crowded cities, especially the capital, Beijing. In the southern city Guangzhou, almost every traffic police officer suffered from nose or throat infections caused by dirty air. The China Daily reported that the Guangzhou Hospital of Vocational Disease Control and Prevention said that more than 90 percent of the 2,746 traffic police who underwent a check-up in Guangzhou had infections. "Vehicle emissions and excessive heat were the major contributors to the condition. Traffic police have to work in a polluted environment for many hours a day, so their health is bound to be affected," Liu Yimin, vice-president of the hospital said in a report. With cities like Guangzhou, with a population of about 10 million and where 1.8 million cars circulate the streets, China will have to face the big problem of pollution, to find new ways to protect its people and the nature too.

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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