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Activities by IPCRG members 2010
IPCRG Pakistan
In Islamabad, our Pakistan member organised a free spirometry day, building on its recent pollen camps. Patients with chronic asthma who had attended the Chief Commissioner's Free Pollen Allergy Camp recently held at the Aabpara Community Centre, were invited to have their spirometry done. As many as 123 patients attended the camp. Of these, 97 patients could not perform the test properly and surprisingly, only 12% had their readings within expected limits. Further reading
Activities by IPCRG members 2009
IPCRG Pakistan
Leading up to WAD we have conducted nationwide trainings for GPs, co-sponsored by IPCRG-Pakistan, in 5 cities, covering over 1,000 GPs.
IPCRG-P will be co-branding the World Asthma Day in Pakistan with the Ministries of Health and Environment, and even the Prime Minister of Pakistan is involved.
IPCRG-P will be doing 3 TV shows on this event. IPCRG-P just did a live TV programme on the dangers of Swine Flu today, telecast live.
Federal Minster Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, Federal Secretary Health Khushnood Lashari and Secretary Environment Kamran Lashari signing joint declaration.
Contact: Osman Yusuf
IPCRG Vietnam
We plan to host a free screening day for asthma and a meeting of
asthma patient club on Sunday May 3rd as our activities to celebrate the asthma day.
We will try to organize an asthma screening day for children and
another one for teachers.
Contact: Lan Le Thi Tuyet
IPCRG India
We are organising a walk for healthy lung, from 9 a.m. and a seminar for general practitioners on lung health from 11a.m. onwards and a press briefing.
Leading up to this, in response to World Health Day we held a camp in the central area of Kolkata in West Bengal state. We had 1 pulmonologist,1 cardiologist and 7 general practitioners involved. The GPs were engaged in basic history taking and the clinical examination. After that p.f.t. were performed both pre & post. Demonstrations of inhalation technique and devices were also shown to patients. We had over 100 patients attending.
We also ran on 12 April a seminar for rural medical practitioners in Barauipur, 45 km from Kolkata. Five hundred doctors were due to participate (data awaited).
Contact: Naren Pandey
IPCRG Bangladesh
As a result of some long term planning between the Bangladesh Lung Foundation Primary Care Group (BLFPCG), the IPCRG and Education for Health on WAD we will start our first 6-month asthma course with the participants of 25 primary care physicians. The Hon Minister of Health and Family Welfare is expected to inaugurate the course in Dhaka. Monica Fletcher and the team from Education for Health will work with the Bangladesh Lung Foundation Primary Care Group to deliver the following programme:
- Field visit to PCPs and patients - 3rd May
- Mentors Training course for 10 PCPs on Asthma - 4th May
- 6-month Asthma Diploma Module for 25 PCPs 5th to 7th May
- One-day course on asthma for 50 nurses - 8th May
- Street rally and other community activities on 9th May
IPCRG Cyprus
The primary care society in Cyprus is organising an event for World Asthma Day on the 16th of May for the public providing free spirometry testing for volunteers in the main public square of the town of Nicosia providing them with written material and information. There is also going to be an announcement in the media (newspapers and TV) on the 5th of May. We are using the IPCRG presentations along with other tools as an update for GPs. This is done in collaboration with the pulmonologists at the respiratory department of Nicosia general hospital (the main general hospital of Cyprus).
Contact: Theodora Zachariadou
IPCRG Australia
The National Asthma Council is using the occasion to promote the message to the 2 million plus people with asthma in Australia to make a commitment to keep their asthma under control with an up to date asthma action plan (see
http://www.nationalasthma.org.au/content/view/247/638/) and annual review with their doctor. This accompanies news that 385 Australians died from asthma in 2007.
Contact: Kristine Whorlow
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