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Expert: Kids hardest hit by poor environmental health systems Tharanya Arumugam © Provided by New Straits Times Haze not only affects children’s health, but also their access to education when schools are forced to close. FILE PIC KUALA LUMPUR:Children are often the hardest hit by the consequences of the climate crisis and poor environmental health systems, as evident in the Sungai Kim Kim incident last year, haze pollution and annual monsoon floods. Regardless, there is still apathy on the part of leaders, officials and politicians on children s environmental health, experts said. They called for stakeholders concerted efforts to include children in all policies, interventions and action plans, paying special attention to the vulnerable.

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