�This weekend Asthma UK will be teaming up with the British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK to host a wellness marquee at the Birmingham Eid Mela, providing information and support for citizenry from the South Asian community.
The marquee will be run by staff, health professionals and volunteers, many of whom give birth asthma themselves, and world Health Organization will be on hired hand to provide advice, information and signposting services. Asthma UK will also be providing a range of popular bilingualist materials such as the life-saving Asthma Attack Cards, which provide basic selective information on how to recognise an asthma attack and what steps to take and Asthma UK's Emergency Care Materials which aid people wHO have been admitted to hospital with an asthma attack attack, avoid future emergency admissions.
There are over 81,000 people in Birmingham with asthma and the city has a large South Asian population. People from South Asian communities are three times more likely than andrew D. White people to have an emergency infirmary admission for their bronchial asthma, despite the fact that the incidence of bronchial asthma in South Asian communities is really lower than in the white population. Research has shown that people from the South Asian
