Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris has lamented the increase in asthma disease around the world, especially as communities adopt western lifestyles and become urbanized.
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The Commissioner who made the observation weekend in a speech delivered on his behalf by Dr. Longe Jemilade, Director, Disease Control, Lagos State Ministry of Health in a workshop. organised by the Elias Nelson Oyedokun Foundatio (ENOF) at Illupeju, Lagos to mark World Asthma Day and also in memory of late Nelson Oyedokun, a 13-year-old boy who died from asthma, disclosed that an estimated 300 million people worldwide. are suffering from asthma with children constituting a reasonable percentage of those afflicted.
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Consequently, experts who delivered papers in the workshop tagged, "You Can Control Your Asthma," have called on both the public and private sectors to create a conducive work environment.