Change of weather affects health of people'
- October 27, 2013, 9:20 pm
- Weather News
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LAHORE, Oct 27 (APP): People coming from Arab states
should immediately consult doctors if they feel cough or flue
symptoms as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Corona
virus became a life-threat.
These views were expressed by Head of the Pulmonary
Diseases, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine Department
of the Services Hospital Professor Dr Kamran Khalid Chima
while talking to APP here on Sunday.
He said a fatality rate of MERS Corona affected
patients was 60 percent as 60 patients out of total 139 had
been died in Saudi Arabia and no medicine for the virus
was available.
"It transfers from human to human so care is necessary,"
he added.
Dr Chima said a change of weather was also affecting people
due to carelessness as people did not wear proper clothes, he added
that children and old-age people should be carefully dressed up.
He said Influenza was another viral disease which could
be dangerous for health during the present weather conditions,
however, precautionary vaccination against it could save
people from it. He also urged the concerned departments to
ensure an availability of anti-viral and anti-influenza
medicine at stores.
He said a number of Asthma patients were also
increasing due to change of weather.
Dr Chima said a balanced diet was important for
lungs disease patients and they should eat high protein food
like fish, eggs, juices and milk.
He said about 80 to 100 people visited OPD of the
department from which more than 50 percent new patient visited
for their problems.
He said sleep disorders like snoring and snoozing during
working and driving were also treated in the department and
almost every critical patient was discussed in the medical
board.
