Ezekwesili, Chukwu, Others to Discuss Role of Environment, Governance in Respiratory Illness

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Bennett Oghifo

The role the environment and governance play in the prevalence of respiratory illness will be the focus of a brainstorming session at the 2019 Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Annual National Asthma Conference.

A statement by the Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Foundation (ACUF), convener of the conference, said its theme is “Better Breathing, Better Living: The Role of the Environment and Governance,” and that it would hold next week Thursday at  Oaklands Hotel in Enugu.

According to the statement, the Board Chairman of ACUF, Dr. Chiwuike Uba said the annual national asthma conference “is to throw more light on the role of the environment and governance on management of respiratory diseases; especially, asthma.”

Uba said the conference is so important, in view of people dying daily from air pollution related diseases, including asthma complications and that “the conference is expected to X-ray the linkages between the environment and…



Source: Thisday Newspaper