MINISTRY OF HEALTH

Chapter 9: Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL)
9.1 Asthma control
Key intervention include
Setting up of asthma model clinics
o Target are all regional/district hospitals
Asthma TOT training done in August
The National “Help me breath” campaign which aims at
o raising awareness on asthma/ advocacy to stakeholders and
Raise funds for respiratory NCDS locally
Campaign targeting childhood asthma
In 2012 29 asthma clinics were engaged and reporting on Asthma under the this approaches and
5,851 patients were registered and on follow up:
Table 9. 1: Number of patients registered for PAL per region
Region
No. of HFs
Nairobi 12
Central Province 3
Rift valley south 4
Western 4
Coast 3
Nyanza 3
9.2 PAL
The goal of PAL is to improve quality of care and outcomes of patients presenting with
respiratory symptoms at the primary health care setting. Key interventions include
Based on syndromic management of patient with a cough
Standardization of Care
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