Islamabad
In order to familiarise the children with various environmental aspects and hazards, the government is planning to include environment as a subject in the syllabus of Class 9.
This was stated by Federal Minister for Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi in a seminar titled ‘Asthma Control: Environment & Public Awareness’, organised here Wednesday at Preston University.
The minister said environmental pollution is, in fact, a major cause behind the rise in the number of asthma patients. “This is the reason why environmental control and management is considered imperative in dealing with this alarmingly increasing disease,” he said.
He said initiatives are being taken at international level to enhance public awareness about asthma and Pakistan does not lag behind in this regard, as the government is working on war footing to effectively deal with the issue of asthma and is providing the required medical aid to people across the country with a sense of great urgency and responsibility.
“A fairly large number of people are affected by the disease in Pakistan among which children are more vulnerable and more seriously affected,” he said and added that the ministry hopefully would be able to include environment as a subject in the school syllabus this year to mobilise the children and deal with the root cause of the issue.
He said unfortunately, Pakistan is facing various environmental dangers and the situation is getting worse day by day. “According to the national environmental policy, cutting of trees is prohibited but the practice still continues,” he said. “In India, trees constitute 25 per cent of the total land but in Pakistan, we have a forest cover of only four per cent,” he regretted. The minister emphasised that it is not only the government’s responsibility to deal with every environmental issue but each individual and institution equally has a part to play.
On the occasion, Dr Osman Yusuf, a specialist in asthma and allergy, said it is a widely prevalent misconception in Pakistan that the cause of allergy is ineffective immune system but the fact is that it is the unnecessary working of the immune system that leads to various types of allergies.
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