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Asthma Center Nurses Formation Session
May 17, 2006

Address of the First Lady

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am glad to be with you today in order to distribute certificates to the first training team that graduated from the Childhood Asthma Center, implemented by the Childhood Protection and Care Association.

As you well know, this center has opened its doors last January, and aims to help asthmatic children whose rate in Lebanon has reached 13%, in order to deal with the illness in a healthy and sane way, as well as helping them in protecting themselves so that they will be able to lead normal lives.

And among this center’s activities is to instigate sessions to nurses in order to train them in guiding patients and their families through in that illness.

And we are gathered today to celebrate the first promotion of graduates, whose motto was: “Free to breathe”, and which is of the Childhood Protection and Care Association strategy which aims to build and strengthen abilities, as well as coach human resources in both bed-nursing and health instruction. For it has become known today that the treatment of asthma requires close supervision from a specialized multi-tasked team and here the role of nurses becomes crucial.

And I am glad to present these certificates today at the end of this session, hoping that you may profit from them in leading your humanitarian mission.

Allow me to express my respect and gratitude to all those who have collaborated in making this session a success, as I congratulate you for all the efforts you have put up with in going through this vast program, for I am sure it will give you an incentive in your difficult mission.

Rest assured that we shall stand by your side and by the side of all those who strive to offer a decent life to all; who work for a better society, and we ask the Almighty to help us all.
Thank you.

The First lady has stressed upon the importance of sensitization concerning asthma as well as receiving the necessary treatments from specialists, in order for the patient to overcome it. On the other hand, Mrs. Lahoud considered that protection from asthma has become a necessity, the rate of Lebanese asthmatic children having reached 13%.

These words came during a speech by the First lady on the occasion of a day-long upgrading courses in the Asthma Center of the Childhood Protection and Care Association.

These intensive courses were followed by 25 nurses from the first-aid centers of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Social Affairs, and NGOs. Were present during that day Dr. Paul Henry Torbey, specialist in childhood respiratory illnesses, the Center’s nurse, Ms. Sylvie Sawan, Mrs. Bahia Mufti from the Faculty of Health in the Balamand University, as well as by the Center’s director, Mrs. Danielle Farhat.

At the end of this session, Mrs. Lahoud distributed certificates to all present nurses, who expressed their happiness in receiving such new information.