Health - Tomorrow is World Asthma Day
In today's show, we spoke to Dr Shirani Naidoo – Chairperson of the National Asthma
Education Programme. We were talking about asthma. It is said to be one of the most common chronic
diseases in the world, af f ecting more than 300
million people world-wide. Asthma is characterized by symptoms such as
breathlessness, wheezing, chest tightness and coughing. However, asthma experts do know that with
proper treatment most asthma patients can achieve good control of their disease. Tomorrow is
World Asthma Day and this year’s theme is “You Can Control Asthma”. In South Af rica , the National Asthma
Education Campaign collaborates with an international body and is tasked with
the responsibility to disseminate globally accepted asthma treatment guidelines
and implement asthma related patient education. Dr Naidoo explained more about
the campaign. For more inf ormation visit your nearest
hospital or clinic alternatively go to www.asthma.co.za
or contact 0861
asthma (278 462).
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