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Your citizens inCities: Skylinesare much like citizens in real life; they grow up, get jobs, and can even get sick. This isn’t ideal though, as you want your city to be as happy and healthy as possible. If you need help healing your city, we are here for you.
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In this guide, we are going to take a look at how you can heal sick citizens within your city. Each entry will cover a potential cause, as well as what you can do to stop or fix it. First, let’s take a look at the most important step you should take to have a healthy city.
Building Medical Facilities
It’s essential to build medical facilities within your city.At the start of a game, you will have access to the clinic;be sure to place these near neighborhoods.Eventually, you’re able to unlock a hospital, as well as a variety of health-orientated buildings depending on the DCLs that you have.
If you have no major problems in your city but notice people getting sick,plop down a few hospitals or clinics.These simple buildings can greatly help your city become healthy again.
Polluted Water
A common problem that can cause citizens to get sick involves sewage water. When you build your waterline through the city, you will place a water treatment structure, as well as another structure that spews out sewage into the water.
The sewage should exit downstream from your water, or at least far away.This prevents the water treatment from sucking up sewage water. When this happens,your residents will be drinking polluted water.
Overall, you should not be drawing from polluted water, whether it be from your sewage line or coastal industrial districts. Fortunately, this is a simple fix; justmove your water treatment structures.
Sewage Back-Up
Your sewage buildings can only handle so much waste at a time.If too many residents are creating waste and the sewage facilities can’t keep up, then the waste will build up.
This means that thesewage does not leave the housing, creating a gross environment.If this is the case, just build another sewage treatment building. Later in the game, you can unlock better waste treatment facilities that process more waste at a time. When these are unlocked, you can replace your basic facilities with them.
Trash Removal
In addition to residents getting sick from sewage, they can get sick from garbage. Typically, landfills and incinerators will deal with trash, removing it from buildings in your city.If you don’t have a large enough trash-removing infrastructure, trash can build up and cause sickness.
Be sure to have a trash management system in place. If you have a few landfills and incinerators, it’s important to alsocheck on the traffic in your city.Garbage trucks can get stuck in traffic, which causes trash to not be picked up.If you have dozens of garbage trucks, but they need to go through a maze of streets to reach a house, the residents will complain and get sick.
Ground Pollution
Ground pollution will happen around industrial districts and buildings that deal with waste. These aren’t the nicest-looking buildings, giving you even more reason tonot place residential zones nearby.
When the ground gets polluted under housing, residents will begin to complain and get sick. Unfortunately, pollution takes a bit to disappear, so there is no quick fix. Instead, you canremove the housing on polluted ground and build more elsewhere.Additionally, you can cut back on the pollution by relocating your industrial district.
Noise Pollution
Although this might be an unlikely cause of sickness,noise pollution can cause your citizens to become ill.
Noise pollution essentially happens when it’stoo noisy near a residential zone.This can be due to commercial districts and specific buildings, as well as proximity to major roads and intersections.
When planning and building your city, you should not be placing busy roads near housing. Additionally,roads that are lined with trees help prevent the spread of noise.In general, trees are great for lowering noise, so we recommend placing a strip of trees between major roads and housing.
For a full walkthrough on preventing noise pollution,be sure to check out our guide!
Boosting Health
Lastly, let’s take a look at boosting the health of your citizens.If your citizens are all healthy, you’re able to always boost this!Some buildings will have health-boosting effects that will provide bonuses to those that are nearby.
In the base game, you can boost health with the Child Health Center, as well as the Eldercare facility.Through various DLCs, you can unlock similar buildings, such as the Yoga Garden. These buildings are beneficial, and look quite nice in your city.
