NOISE POLLUTION MONITORING AND REMEDIES FOR HOSPITALS IN NASHIK CITY

Civil Engineering

Rapid urbanization and alarming growth of population is causing serious environmental problems in Nashik city. Noise is one of the environmental problems that discomfort in daily life. Noise pollution has become major concern for communities living within the city. Major effects of noise pollution include interference with communication, sleeplessness, and reduced efficiency. The extreme effects e.g. deafness and mental breakdown neither is ruled out. Generally, a request to reduce or stop the noise is made out by the aggrieved party. However, complaints to the administration and police have also been accepted as a way of solving this menace. Noise levels can be effectively reduced by providing rooms for a single patient, by installing high- performance sound-absorbing acoustic ceiling tiles and by removing or reducing sources of loud noise in hospital units. In addition, acoustic ceiling tiles improve speech intelligibility by reducing sound reverberation and increase speech privacy by reducing sound propagation in adjacent areas. A large body of research also shows that music therapy is effective at reducing anxiety and distress in patients in many types of health care settings. In this project work, noise pollution monitoring of major hospitals of Nashik City will be done so as to identify the noise levels that could harm the patients in the hospitals which are most prone to noise pollution effects.

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