Day world of COPD.

November 16.

Spain, November 2011- on Wednesday, November 16 was held a day of dissemination in Caprio Hospital General of Cataluya, on the occasion of world day of the disease (COPD) chronic obstructive pùlmonar.

It has offered information on chronic obstructive pùlmonar disease, damage that produces tobacco and ways to quit.

carried out demonstrations of how inhalers, exchange of cigarettes by lollipops or chocolate, artwork. In addition, offered for free (spirometry, cooximetría and pulse oximetry) pulmonary function tests to patients, family members, visitors and all those who came to the hospital.

We count with the collaboration of patients in the hospital, of the International University of Catalonia (UIC), of associations of patients and from the Spanish society of foreign doctors (SEMEX).