The Commissioner for Health Dr Joe Akabuike says asthma has no known cure but can be managed for life.
Dr. Akabuike made this disclosure during the press briefing on public enlightenment on asthma.
Addressing the press, Dr. Akabuike said that the Anambra state government having done much in communicable diseases is now focusing on non communicable diseases that kill people on daily basis all over the world like asthma.
The Commissioner who said, that the best way of managing asthma is by the patients to stay away from areas that trigger their reactions and listed some of the symptoms to wheezing, breathlessness, tightness of the chest, coughing among others.
The health commissioner equally listed types of asthma to include acute asthma, brittle asthma, occupational asthma, alcohol induced asthma among others.
The Director of Public Health, Dr. Uchechukwu Onyejimbe, noted that the press briefing was to enlighten the public about the risk factors of asthma and explained that industrialization and pollution are parts of the causes of asthma.
The State Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association, Dr. Emma Muonagor, commended the ministry of health and the state government for ensuring that Ndi Anambra have adequate health facilities and stressed the need for proper enlightenment of people at the rural areas for them to understand everything about asthma.
Asthma can be described as a long term inflammatory disease of the air way of the lungs.
It is characterized by variable and recurrent symptoms and it affects people of all ages and often starts in childhood.
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