'My priority is rent, caring for my family. I can't afford the recurring expense of buying masks'
India, Dec. 22 -- For 26-year-old Dharam Veer, the situation feels hopeless. "What can an ordinary person even do about the pollution? We need our daily wages, and we need to eat everyday. That means working during heavy pollution."
Having worked as a florist in New Friends Colony for six years, he is used to the pollution now. "Bouts of coughing, colds, burning in my eyes - all this is normal now. It happens often, but we have to continue working. I have to come here early in the morning, sometimes even at 4 am, and I usually do not leave until 10 or 11 in the night, as I need to earn."
Veer said that, for him and others in his profession, it is difficult to procure even simple remedies for pollution, such as masks, because of the costs.
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