By GBENGA OLARINOYE

OSOGBO – A consultant chest physician at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex,OAUTHC, Ile-Ife, Professor Greg Erhabor, has declared that no fewer than 50 million Nigerians are suffering from asthma.

Fielding questions from newsmen at OAU, Ile-Ife, yesterday, before he delivered a lecture as part of activities marking the World Asthma Day, Prof. Erhabor noted that the disease had not only become a national problem but international.

According to him,the  Nigerian government was not doing enough in curbing its spread, diagnosis and treatment, stressing that past administrations in the country only concerned themselves with eradication of communicable diseases while neglecting non-communicable diseases.

Erhabor, who is the President of The Asthma and Chest Care Foundation, a non government organisation, said with rise in Westernisation, cases of the diseases had been on the increase.