More than 46,000 people die of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections (ALRI) in Bangladesh each year due to Indoor Air Pollution (IAP), acting country representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Andrew Trevett said Thursday.
His findings and those of others set out at a workshop in Dhaka on 15 June revealed that 70 per cent of IAP victims were children under five.
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