Air Pollution

An Indian chest surgeon explains why he rarely sees healthy lungs anymore

A man crosses a road on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 8, 2018

A smoggy morning in New Delhi, November 2018 Image: REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

Arvind Kumar
Founder and Managing Trustee, Lung Care Foundation of India; Chairman, Centre for Chest Surgery and Director, Institute of Robotic Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
Rajiv Khurana
Founder Trustee, the Lung Care Foundation, and Founder and CEO, The Personnel Lab
Abhishek Kumar
Chief Executive Officer and Founder Trustee, Lung Care Foundation
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