Speaking at the World Health Summit regional meeting on Tuesday morning, Prof. Lynn Atuyambe, the head of researchers conducting air quality monitoring and lung health research in Kampala, said that his team is now specifically looking at air patterns between June and August, whose report they will release in three months.
Before the lockdown which came with restrictions on the number of activities including traffic, commercial and other pollution generating activities, Kampala’s air quality was already six times worse than global standards mainly caused by dust from unpaved roads, fumes from cars and open burning of waste.
Dr. Daniel Okello, the Acting Director of Public Health and Environment at Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) said at 162 µg/m3 currently Kampala is unsafe since the World Health recommendation of air quality is 25 µg/m3.
