World Asthma Day Celebrations at KRIMS Hospitals

On the occasion of World Asthma Day, KRIMS Hospitals organized an Asthma Education Program on the 1 st of May 2018. The Department of Pulmonology of KRIMS Hospitals will be celebrating the Asthma Awareness Month to raise awareness about the health consequences of asthma and the asthma treatment . Dr. Sameer Arbat, Consultant Pulmonologist educated the audience including more than 60 people on the topic of ‘How to Control Asthma. The attendees included the patients and their relatives who were invited for the education program. This year’s  World Asthma Day theme by WHO is ‘Never Too Early, Never Too Late-It’s always the right time to address airways disease’. There are an estimated 300 million asthmatic patients worldwide with 1/10 th of those living in India. A recent review analysis of 15 epidemiological studies showed that the mean prevalence of asthma among children was 7.24%. Dr. Sameer in his talk mentioned about the triggering factors of Asthma and how to avoid them.