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Int Noise Awareness

Day today

KARACHI: International Noise Awareness Day will be observed by a quiet diet Ñ one minute of quiet, regardless of location, from 2.15 p.m. to 2.16 p.m. on Wednesday.

According to Ear Nose Throat (ENT) surgeon Dr Imtiaz A. Siddiqui noise poses a serious threat to hering, health, learning and behaviour.

This years' special effort has been launched to apprise the public of the negative impacts of noise pollution on the psychological and physiological health of the people living in noisy environment.

Continuous exposure to noise, documented research has found, leads to physiological changes in blood pressure, sleep, digestion and other stress related disorders. Volumes of literature exist documenting the harmful eforts of noise, he said.

"It is essential that we seriously take this relationship between noise and health," he said.

he stressed the need to take necessary steps to reduce noise in the society before it starts affecting the next generation of its adverse effects.ÑAPP