Director Kunal Kohli didn’t have a nice Diwali this 12 months. The filmmaker not too long ago took to social media to share how he needed to take his mom to Mumbai’s Khar Hinduja Hospital for emergency remedy on Diwali night time. Nonetheless, he was shocked to seek out individuals bursting loud firecrackers outdoors the hospital gate, seemingly with little regard for the sufferers inside.
Kunal Kohli calls out residents for bursting loud firecrackers outdoors Mumbai hospital
In his put up, Kunal talked about that he even requested the residents to not burst loud crackers outdoors the hospital, however they paid no heed to him and continued with the celebrations. Tagging the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC), Kunal wrote, “Took my mother for an emergency to Khar Hinduja hospital tonight, Diwali night time. Sadly some residents had been burning loud bombs simply outdoors the hospital gate. I politely requested them to burn all crackers besides loud bombs outdoors the hospital gates. A person advised me ‘hospital galat jagah pe hai-hum yahan 40 saal se hain (Hospital is constructed on the fallacious place, we now have been right here for the final 40 years)’ and he continued to burst loud bombs. @mybmc.”
Bhumi Pednekar raises issues over Mumbai’s air high quality after Diwali
In the meantime, actor Bhumi Pednekar additionally raised issues over deteriorating air high quality and the affect of firecracker celebrations. Taking to Instagram Tales, she shared, “Homes have caught fireplace, the AQI is hazardous, roads are stuffed with waste, its 3 am and all I can hear are loud crackers. Our roads had been full of individuals bursting crackers on them, out within the open, even when it’s not allowed. That is heartbreaking. @my bmc ®mumbaipolice.”
She additionally shared one other put up on Monday morning, which learn, “Diwali is a competition of sunshine, love, household and new beginnings. However yearly, together with the celebrations, comes a well-known aftermath: polluted air, firecracker waste, noise and frightened animals. Firecrackers launch tremendous particulate matter and different pollution that add to an already difficult air-quality scenario. And the affect isn’t skilled equally. Kids, older individuals, these with respiratory circumstances and animals are significantly weak. This 12 months, let’s make a alternative that permits everybody together with those who can not converse for themselves to benefit from the competition.”
Firecracker celebrations on Diwali night time led to an increase in air pollution ranges in a number of cities throughout the nation. In Mumbai, 9 of town’s 25 air high quality monitoring stations recorded poor air high quality on Monday morning. Town’s total Air High quality Index (AQI) stood at 171, putting it within the reasonable class.