Gasping for air: Borneo residents struggle as island burns

‘What we’re breathing is poison’: Indonesia rolls out oxygen buses as wildfire haze reaches toxic levels

PALANGKARAYA, Oct 27 — Sudarsono shuddered as he inhaled from an oxygen tank while being evacuated from his small house in Palangkaraya on Indonesian Borneo, yellow, acrid...

Borneo struggles to breathe as wildfires fill the air with toxic smog

More than 300,000 people in seven provinces were laid low by respiratory tract infections from August to October, Indonesia's health ministry says.

Gasping for air: Borneo residents struggle as island burns

The 57-year-old fell sick after going out with three friends days earlier to fight fires creeping closer to homes on the outskirts of the city in Central Kalimantan province, one of the regions hit hardest by months of blazes and haze. "I wore a mask, goggles, everything, but I was surrounded by smoke. I went home since I couldn't take it anymore," the construction worker and farmer told AFP as he was being loaded into an ambulance to go to hosp…