Respiratory health

Audio 48:30

Respiratory diseases can be misdiagnosed. iStock / Milena Shehovtsova

By: Igor Strauss

Asthma, COPD, pneumonia or even tuberculosis… are all diseases that cause respiratory functions to deteriorate. Affecting the airways, including the nasal passages, bronchi and lungs, respiratory illnesses can be misdiagnosed.

Publicity

What are the symptoms that should alert? What support ? What are the advances in terms of treatments? What advice, in terms of prevention?

  • Pr Jean-Marie Kayembe , head of department of Pneumology at the university clinics of Kinshasa in DRC, dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Kinshasa and professor of pulmonology respiratory physiology and professional diseases,
  • Pr Chantal Raherison , pulmonologist in the respiratory diseases department, Cardio-thoracic center at the CHU of Bordeaux and president of the French-speaking pneumology society,
  • A focus on the fight against tuberculosis threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic with Dr. Dennis Falzon , medical officer, medical epidemiologist. He is the TB Covid-19 focal point in the Tuberculosis program for WHO in Geneva, Switzerland.

Distrust of WHO, the head of emergency operations for WHO Africa, Dr Michel YAO , replied.

Newsletter Receive all international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_FR

  • Health and Medicine