Helping Hands for Relief and Development (HHRD) organized two events on Monday to commemorate ‘World Pneumonia Day (November 16)’ and to create awareness among masses about the fatal disease, said a press release. The first event was held for the selected medical officers and media persons...
Every five minutes seven children die from pneumonia in Africa. This is according to medical experts who say pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children. But, they say this would not be the case if caregivers ensured that their children got vaccinated before...
Pneumonia kills nearly 1.6 million children under five annually worldwide. An estimated 98 percent of children who die of pneumonia live in developing countries. Dr Dorothy Esangbedo, President, Paediatric Association of Nigeria, in a statement on World Pneumonia Day disclosed that, according to 2008 estimates,...
The Master Care Foundation in conjunction with John Hopkins University USA will be organizing a one day Symposium on Pneumonia. Read more....
The wife of the Bayelsa State governor, Mrs Alanyingi Sylva, has called for the inclusion of vaccination against pneumonia in the National Immunisation Programme (NPI). She pointed out that to achieve a reduction in the number of child deaths resulting from pneumonia, children under the age...
Country Director of Johns Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center, Dr. Chizoba Wonodi, has declared that 177,000 children die of pneumonia every year in Nigeria, while 20 children die every hour in Nigeria. Wonodi said that despite the fact that pneumonia is a critical contributor to the...
According to IFAPA’s A Mother’s Cry for a Healthy Africa inter-faith campaign, a healthy Africa is “an Africa that is spiritual and free of conflict and preventable diseases; an Africa in which the children and youth that have been given to us are cherished and...
Friday was observed as the World Pneumonia Day as medical professionals highlighted the need to create awareness about the disease that kills more children than any other disease. Speaking at an event in Lahore, Pakistan Medical Society Chairman pointed out that children whose immune...
They say time heals all wounds. While I believe that certainly can be true, I also recognize that often, scars remain. Last week at this time I sat in a room full of people on World Pneumonia Day, listening to Shannon Duffy Peterson recall the...
The calender for a committed global health activist can be quite full. There’s World Malaria Day in April, World AIDS Day in December, World Tuberculosis Day in March. The Department of Health and Human Services tallies at least 14 more international public health awareness days. That...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
