Dozens of children are being treated at this hospital in Riau Province, Indonesia for severe breathing problems caused by the haze which is hanging over the region.

Footage filmed on Saturday (September 21) at a clinic in the city of Pekanbaru showed minors in face masks being treated for acute respiratory tract infections.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Riau Province are reported to have suffered breathing problems as a result of the smog which is also affecting Malaysia and Singapore.

Residents who experience acute respiratory tract infections due to inhaling haze from forest fires are being treated by hospitals in Pekanbaru city, Riau Province, Indonesia on September 21, 2019. More than 300 thousand people in Riau experience respiratory problems due to air conditions that experience haze haze from forest fires, it has been more than a month that Riau's peat forests have caught fire. The haze from Riau to Malaysia and Singapore, whose citizens experienced breathing problems, air and sea transportation also experienced disturbances.