Tuesday 7 May, on the occasion of the World Asthma Day 202453 Pediatric Pneumology centers distributed throughout the national territory will offer free spirometry evaluations to the children. The initiative is carried out by Italian Society for Childhood Respiratory Diseases in collaboration with the Italian Society of Pediatrics, AsmAllergia Bimbi Onlus, Federasma e Allergy Patients Federation ODV, Let’s breathe togetherAnd constitutes an important opportunity for families to deepen their knowledge of and access to an increasingly widespread and difficult pathology specialist medical checks for their children, at no cost.
The Pneumo-Allergology clinic of the Paediatrics Unit of the Lamezia Terme Hospital, directed by the doctor Caloiero, is among the centers admitted to the national initiative and will offer free spirometry tests from 9 am to 5 pm, together with information talks on asthma and pediatric allergology. The activities will be carried out at the new clinics on the third floor, Staircase B of the Lamezzo hospital.
The Provincial Health Authority of Vibo Valentia will also be on the field on the occasion of the World Asthma Day 2024. On the afternoon of May 7th from 3pm to 6pm at the pneumo-allergology clinic of the Medicine Department of the Tropea Hospital there will be the possibility of carry out a free specialist assessment on the respiratory health of adults and children.
Doctors Salvatore Braghó, Giuseppe Barbuto, Rosaria Chessari And Rocco Longo they will be available to anyone who requests advice on respiratory diseases; the free specialist consultations will continue in the same location with doctors Chessari and Longo on the dates of 16 and 30 May, from 8.30 am to 6 pm on the occasion of the “Asthma zero week”.
This is the commitment of the Vibono Health Authority to network with the main national circuits for the treatment and prevention of asthma, a multi-factorial pathology which it affects adults and children and is constantly increasingwith direct costs on healthcare spending and indirect costs on days of absence from work and school.
