Fundació Roger Torné

Ajuntament de Barcelona supports children’s breathing health on World Asthma Day

Dr Manuel Praena, Dr Cristina Iniesta, Mrs. Soledad Román, Dr Salvador Díaz Lobato and Dr Ramon Folch

For the first time since 15 years ago the World Health Organization (WHO)  and the World Initiative against asthma (GINA) instituted the World Asthma Day in 1998, Ajuntament de Barcelona joined, the last 7th of May, the celebration of this day. And he did so by considering prevention as the best way of fighting against that patology that became in the last years the first cause of hospital entry among childen and the first cause of truancy by chronic disease. This task, in words of the Delegate of Health of Ajuntament de Barcelona, Cristina Iniesta, ‘does not solely depend on the health services and public administrations, but it needs the collaboration of all, including scientific research institutions, social entities and citizens’.

With these words, Dr. Iniesta illustrated the importance of the act that took place in Ajuntament propelled by Fundació Roger Torné, an entity that always promoted collaboration and alliance with other public and private organizations as the best way to work for children’s health and sensitizing with reference to the influence that environmental factors have on them. (more…)

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