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12/11/22 10:19 AM IST

World Pneumonia Day 2022

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  • World Pneumonia Day is a global event observed every year on 12 November to spread awareness and educate people to combat Pneumonia disease, which is a world’s biggest infectious killer of adults and children, responsible for the majority of death of children below five around the world.
World Pneumonia Day 
  • Theme-“Pneumonia Affects Everyone”.
  • This year 2022, with the support of 42 countries 228 monuments will be illuminated to mark the World Pneumonia Day, with an intention to raise visibility of World Pneumonia Day, 2022 globally.
Significance 
  • Pneumonia is a preventable and treatable infectious disease. Despite the availability of treatment, the death toll due to Pneumonia and other respiratory infectious disease has risen drastically in past years.
  • In 2019, 25 lakhs people lost their lives, and around seven lakhs children below five years died due to the Pneumonia across the world.
  • Also, the Unprecedented COVID outbreak has added the toll to 6 lakhs death due to respiratory infectious disease in 2021. 
Background 
  • World Pneumonia Day was first observed on 12 November 2009, under the “Stop Pneumonia” initiatives by Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia, a coalition of various institutions all together to fight the child mortality due to the respiratory infection.
Pneumonia 
  • Pneumonia is an inflammatory respiratory disorder caused due to bacteria, viruses or fungal infections which impair the air sacs of the lungs, called “Alveoli”.
  • It results in the accumulation of fluid or pus in the air sacs, making breathing difficult.
  • It is a contagious disease and could be fatal for the person with weaker immunity, especially in the children’s and elderly people.
Source- Hindustan times 

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