World Asthma Day

The motion

That the Parliament supports World Asthma Day on 1 May 2012, when health care groups and asthma educators collaborate with the Global Initiative for Asthma to raise awareness about asthma and seek to improve asthma care throughout the world; highlights the theme of World Asthma Day, You Can Control Your Asthma, whereby charities will seek to emphasise asthma control in events including the Edinburgh Salt Cave open day, in which salt therapy offers an alternative treatment for asthma, and the Edinburgh awareness evening organised by the Institute of Occupational Medicine; understands that asthma is a chronic lung condition that affects 368,000 people in Scotland and is characterised by recurring episodes of inflammation of the bronchi manifested by laboured breathing; further understands that, in 2009, three people per day died of the condition and that an estimated 90% of these deaths were avoidable; acknowledges asthma campaigns in Scotland, including the Get it Off Your Chest campaign, in which asthma sufferers are encouraged to share experiences of their condition, and supports research into the treatment, prevention and biology of asthma, including research into immunotherapy treatment by the Medical Research Council and Asthma UK research centre in London, which aims to reduce the debilitating effect of the condition on people in the UK.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 25 Con 4 Lab 2 LD 1 Green 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

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