Pasir Gudang pollution: Authorities monitoring air quality at schools
JOHOR BAHRU: Officers from the relevant agencies today fanned out to 85 schools in Pasir Gudang to monitor the air quality, after 273 students and teachers had to seek treatment for breathing difficulty and vomiting soon after the 111 affected schools reopened yesterday.
Johor Health, Culture and Heritage Committee chairman Mohd Khuzzan Abu Bakar said the officers will attempt to trace the source of the latest air pollution at these identified hotspots.
“Today, we want to scrutinise the (air quality) reading up to 1 pm. We want to determine the actual reading at the schools because the majority of the affected people are schoolchildren,” he told.
Khuzzan said the officers will focus on the air quality on the third and fourth floors of the school buildings.
The 111 schools were reopened yesterday after being closed on June 25 following air pollution that affected over 700 people, mainly schoolchildren.
He also said that only three pupils out of the 273 people who suffered breathing difficulty and vomiting yesterday have been warded at the Sultan Ismail Hospital.
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