Increasing Pollution Levels Bolstering Sales of Surgical, Face, and Respiratory Masks

Due to the rising air pollution levels, the demand for surgical, face, and respiratory masks is growing explosively across the world. The increasing industrialization and urbanization is fueling the emission of pollutants from factories and vehicles. According to the findings of the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 4.1 million people lost their lives because of high PM2.5 levels in 2016. 

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Moreover, with the growing incidence of heart diseases, stroke, chronic lung diseases, respiratory infections, and lung cancer, the sales of face masks are rising sharply across the world. Besides these factors, the surging population of geriatric people and the increasing number of surgical procedures are also propelling the sales of surgical, face, and respiratory masks across the globe. This is, in turn, driving the advancement of the global surgical, face, and respiratory mask market.

This will be because of the increasing prevalence of airborne disease and the rising requirement for surgical procedures around the world. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for such masks is exploding, as these masks are being extensively used by people and healthcare practitioners for minimizing the spread of the infection. Individuals, hospitals, clinics, and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are the major end users of respiratory, surgical, and face masks across the world.

Out of these, the usage of these masks is predicted to be the highest in hospitals in the coming years, on account of the fact that nearly all medical practitioners working at hospitals are wearing masks, because of the presence of strict regulations regarding the wearing of masks at hospitals. These masks are sold via direct and indirect channels. Between these, the sales of these masks via indirect channels are predicted to be higher in the coming years.

Hence, it can be said with full confidence that the demand for surgical, respiratory, and face masks will soar all over the world in the future years, mainly because of the rising prevalence of airborne and lung diseases and the increasing implementation of strict regulations regarding mask usage at healthcare settings across the world.