The Bengaluru City Corporation recently launched “Pranavayu Programme” to create awareness about the respiratory health of Bengaloreans.
Highlights
- The initiative aims to help people in increasing oxygen level of the people by themselves.
- This will help them to keep track about their health before their ailments become fatal.
Significance
- There are several deaths reported in the country due to Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI).
- Especially, COVID-19 causes Hypoxia (deficiency of oxygen in tissues).
- This is like starving the body of oxygen.
COVID-19 and breathing problems
- COVID-19 stimulates breathing difficulties through chemical reactions.
- When a person is infected with COVID-19, the virus binds itself with the haemoglobin in Red Blood Cells.
- This is the main reason for disruption in respiratory process.
- During normal respiration, the haemoglobin acts as a carrier of oxygen from the air chambers in lungs to the cells all over the body.
- In return they collect carbon dioxide from these cells and carry it to the lungs.
- COVID-19 blocks the functioning of haemoglobin that causes breathing difficulty.
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