Our climate is our planet. ALEEM M A . BMJ 2016;355:i5245

Editorials

Healthcare professionals must lead on climate change

BMJ 2016; 355 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i5245 (Published 04 October 2016)

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Rapid response

Our climate is our planet

Everyone has a responsibility to mitigate the consequences of climatic changes. We neurologists are very worried because many neurological diseases are influenced directly or indirectly by climatic changes.

To mitigate climatic changes, everyone in the health care system should plant green plants in and outside our hospitals, houses, and other work places. We should avoid plastics in our day to day life. We should use environmental friendly fuels. We must also help the proper disposal of biomedical and other hospital waste.

Competing interests: No competing interests

07 October 2016

M A Aleem

Neurologist

ABC Hosoital. Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College And Hosoital. Apollo Hospital.

Annamalainagar Trichy 620018. DSMCH Perambalur 621212. Apollo hospital Trichy 620010. Tamilnadu India