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Dust
Haze Hits Health of Young and Elderly By MAZEN MAHDI, Daily News 6 August 2003 A THICK dust haze
covered Bahrain yesterday resulting in an increase in the number of people
seeking medical care and reducing visibility to 800 metres. More people have
been visiting hospitals seeking medical care as result of the
deteriorating weather conditions, medical sources told the GDN. Those most affected
were young children and the elderly, who suffer from asthma, they said. But there were no
immediate figures available of the number people who visited the hospitals
with complications resulting from the bad weather yesterday. Visibility was also
considerably reduced to 800m at Bahrain International Airport a result of
the thick dust haze. This, however, did
not affect air traffic, according to airport sources. The last time that
visibility was reduced to this level at the airport because of dust was on
August 24, 1987, when visibility dropped to 800m too. A spokesman for the
Civil Aviation Affairs meteorology directorate said yesterday's dust haze
was caused by cloud activities to the south of the Arabian Peninsula,
which raised sand and dust from the Saudi desert in Rub Al Khali (The
Empty Quarter) and blew it over the region. Dust affected the
southern half of the Arabian Peninsula and the Eastern coastal areas from
Bahrain northwards. The directorate
said it expected the dust haze to thin out over the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the General Directorate of Traffic said
there were no reports of increased accidents caused by the weather. Copyright
© 2002 Global Action on Aging
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