Pouya Rohani
7:35 pm
11/13/10
Pneumonia disease can be prevented and treated and cured with current antibiotic and vaccine. This is not what is happening around the world, at least in low income countries. Every twenty seconds one person dies somewhere in the world because of the pneumonia. There is large gap in the number of people with pneumonia disease around the world. For every child that dies because of pneumonia in an industrial country, 2000 child dies because of same disease in low income countries. Fortunately, in 1995, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union) found the Child Lung Health Program (CLHP) to focus on the disease pneumonia, tuberculosis, and other related lung diseases in low income countries. CLHP launched in Malawi and used the same effective method to treat pneumonia that they used for treating tuberculosis. The method is simple and at the same time very effective. They used normal treatment, wise use of antibiotic, secure supply of medicines and help from government and constant supervision and training. The result shows that between the years 2000 and 2005, the number of child death, under age five with severe pneumonia, decreased by more than 50%.
It is sad that diseases like pneumonia that can be treated and cured take life of so many individuals around the world. If so many people die in one year in a country, there would be huge social consequence that cannot be recovered in years. Usually, most of these diseases that have cure and can be prevented are taking life of innocent people in low income countries. The poverty and low and minimum health care system with high number of population with no or minimum education mixed and create a huge social problems. There are positive signs for improvement in defeating social problems in these poor countries, as mentioned above.
Source: http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2010/11/13/unions-approach-child-pneumonia-cuts-deaths-more-half
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