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  • Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
  • India's capital, New Delhi, is developing a new concept of healthy leisure - oxygen bars.
    At ten dollars an hour, the establishment provides a whiff of pure oxygen to the pollution- afflicted lungs of the city's residents.
    The medical fraternity, however, is up in arms against the concept, saying it is just another gimmick.
    The ultra modern lifestyle of urban India has for long relied on swinging discos to dance away the blues of hectic schedules and work pressures.
    Clubs across the Indian metros offer dancing floors - and increasingly , pool tables - to the stressed executives tired of playing corporate games.
    For the first time however , succour is being offered to their pollution-afflicted lungs.
    At a recently opened Oxygen bar In New Delhi , you can inhale whiffs of air containing 93 per cent of oxygen through nasal tubes.
    The imported oxygen-producing machines vend the substance, something that is getting scarce in a city ranked the fourth most polluted in the world.
    The bar owners claim that inhaling pure oxygen can recharge tired brains and sharpen mental faculties rendered dull by the fierce onslaught of air pollution.
    Many of those taking in generous amounts of the unadulterated gas swear by its healthy effects.
    SOUNDBITE( English) :
    "Eighty percent of my problem has been removed. So that is why I am feeling very fine."
    SUPER CAPTION: Avinash Kumar , Customer
    The medical profession however is not amused.
    The doctors say gulps of air containing 93 per cent oxygen are not needed at all by a normal person and there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone.
    Dismissing the whole thing as a gimmick , they say its impact is more on the human psyche and less on the body.
    SOUNDBITE ( English)
    "It is psychological. The feeling inside the brain that I am taking 100 per cent oxygen... it is doing good to me...like that."
    SUPER CAPTION : Rajesh Chawla , Doctor
    Pollution in the Indian capital is getting deadlier.
    Studies have revealed that thousands of people die each year due to lung and cardiovascular diseases caused by polluted air.
    Car emissions account for 65 per cent of the air pollution in New Delhi .
    One in every five residents of the city suffers from breathing problems.
    Besides having one of the world's highest concentration of airborne particulates, New Delhi's air has extremely high levels of carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide.
    SOUNDBITE ( English) :
    "Pure oxygen we are not getting anywhere. Where should we go ? Every where we go there is pollution."
    SUPER CAPTION: Deepak Singh , Owner ,Oxygen Bar
    At five dollars for half an hour , the bar provides what it calls the " most economic and effective heath care " under the supervision of a medical expert.
    The owners say they are getting an average of ten clients every day besides numerous queries on the phone.
    The advocates of the oxygen therapy are not worried about the opposition by the city's doctors.
    But doctors warn that inventions may dilute concern for the real issue of pollution control.
    SOUNDBITE ( English):
    "You have got to decrease the pollution - that is more important rather than giving half an hour oxygen. There is no scientific data anywhere in the world available which says oxygen taken by this prolongs the life or makes you happier or makes your disease
    better."
    SUPER CAPTION : Rajesh Chawla , Doctor
    The government strategy to combat air pollution has not been very effective.
    Encouraged by the response , the Oxygen bar owners plan to open about 300 such outlets across the country.
    Given the level of pollution across the country, the concept is bound to sell - at least among the cash-rich upper class.
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