Question: World Pneumonia Day is celebrated on-
(a) 13 November
(b) 12 November
(c) 18 November
(d) 14 November
Ans. (b)
Related facts:
- World Pneumonia Day was celebrated on 12 November 2016 across the world.
- This year’s theme is “Keep the promise. Stop pneumonia now”.
- This Day is celebrated to brings people from all over the world together uniting to demand that something be done to fight the pneumonia illness.
- World Pneumonia Day helps to highlight the severity of pneumonia and encourages more organizations to look at ways of combating the disease.
- This day was first hosted in 2009 when over 100 organizations joined to form the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia.
- Pneumonia is a leading cause of death for children under the age of five years around the world.
- In 2015, approximately 920,136 children died from this infectious disease.
Reference:
http://www.who.int/life-course/news/events/world-pneumonia-day-2016/en/
http://stoppneumonia.org/world-pneumonia-day/pneumonia-fumbler-challenge/
http://stoppneumonia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-Advocacy-Toolkit.pdf