Awareness Seminar To Mark World Pneumonia Day Held At Benazir Bhutto Hospital

A seminar to mark the World Pneumonia Day held here at Benazir Bhutto Hospital on Monday where experts stressed the need for taking the disease seriously.

RAWALPINDI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Nov, 2018 ) :A seminar to mark the World Pneumonia Day held here at Benazir Bhutto Hospital on Monday where experts stressed the need for taking the disease seriously.

Professor Dr Rai Asghar Ahmed while speaking on the occasion said that about 30,000 deaths of infants are reported annually in Pakistan due to pneumococcal disease.

Responding to this situation, the Punjab government had included pneumococcal vaccine in Extended Programme of Immunization first time in the country's history,he added He underlined the importance of holding such seminars in order to create community awareness to combat all diseases.

He said pneumococcal disease was an infection caused by Streptococcus pneumonia.

Different types of pneumococcal disease including bacteremia, meningitis, pneumococcal pneumonia and Otis media.

Symptoms of pneumonia include chest pain, shortness of breath, cough and fever.

He advised the mothers to breastfeed their newborns at least for twoyears to prevent pneumonia.

Later a walk was held in which health officials,students of Rawalpindi Medical University and para medical staff of the hospital participated.