Around 300 million people are suffering from asthma worldwide and has been linked to 250000 deaths annually.

The scourge of diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases is posing a mounting challenge to health care practitioners, administrators and policy makers in terms of the increasing complexity of treatment, life-long management and rising demand for more resources.
Alarmed by the rising incidence of the non-communicable diseases and its impact on the health care delivery, the global ministerial conference on healthy lifestyles and non-communicable disease control was held in Moscow in April 2011 followed by the high level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in September, 2011.
The Special Session of UN General Assembly was attended by Heads of State, Heads of Government and Health Ministers from across the Globe.
Azad claimed that as the country's Health Minister, he was able to outline the concrete steps taken by India to prevent and control the Non-Communicable Disease, which have emerged as the leading cause of disease, disability and death worldwide.
He said 20 to 30 per cent of people in India are having one or more allergic diseases and their prevalence is rising day by day. Taking children and adults together, there are nearly 30 million asthmatics in India today, which constitutes about 10 percent of the global burden of asthma.
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Source-ANI