Bangladesh Lung Foundation [BLF]

HELP POOR PATIENT

You can help poor patient to do their treatment who still suffering for the lack of money.

TRAINING

We allow various training material and research material for lung related students to enrich their knowledge on this regards.

MEMBERSHIP

Your membership will help you to be connected more with us and it will allow you get some extra facilities on various occasion.

OUR MOTTO

Bangladesh Lung Foundation is formed to work and research on this area to minimize lung related injuries of the people.

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About Us

In Bangladesh, the field of respiratory medicine has bloomed over the years into a distinct entity and a thriving sector, leading to the advent of many pulmonologists. These pulmonologists are working relentlessly for the amelioration of sufferings of patients with respiratory diseases in Bangladesh.
In Bangladesh, we have to operate in resource limited settings, in a developing country. Nevertheless we have the knowledge and skills to ensure satisfactory care for the millions. We shall endeavor to harness our limited resources to optimize quality of care.
In this context, we have formed “Bangladesh Lung Foundation” as an umbrella organization to promote lung health in Bangladesh and the neighboring regions. It was formally launched on February 15, 2007 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Lung Foundation is a company limited by guarantee and not having share capital registered under section 29 of the companies act, 1994.

PULMOCON EVENTS

HEALTH CAMPAIGN

SEMINAR ON LUNG

STUDENTS TRAINING

EVENTS

PULMOCON

Bangladesh Lung Foundation (BLF) is a forum for pulmonologists and allied specialties established in 2007. It is now treated as a credible “think tank” in the field of pulmonology (respiratory medicine) in Bangladesh.

Over the last decade, the members of BLF has dedicated themselves to the promotion of lung health for the people of Bangladesh.The priority areas of BLF are :
- Airway Diseases- Asthma and COPD
- Infectious Diseases- TB and other non-Tubercular chest infection
- Immunological Diseases- Interstitial lung disease and others
- Lung Cancer
- Occupational Lung Disease
- Paediatric Lung Disease-Cystic fibrosis, Bronchiolitis and others
In 2007, BLF has carried out a nationwide survey on COPD patients, internationally known as BOLD-BD Study (Burden of Obstructive Lung Diseases-Bangladesh). According to that study, 6.5 million people in Bangladesh over 40 years suffer from COPD. An Asthma Prevalence Survey was conducted in 2009 throughout the country.

CME PRESENTATION

GOLD Guideline-2017 by
Prof. Md. Ali Hossain, Dr. M A Shakur Khan (Self Mx COPD), Dr. K. S. Bennoor (Vit D in COPD), Prof Ruhul Amin (PE & Empyema Mx).

PATIENT AWARENESS PROGRAM

BLF has organized a number of Free Lung Disease Clinics in some rural areas in Mymensingh and Rangpur districts.

BLF has already organized a number of GP meetings and workshops in Dhaka and Chittagong. Some 50 to 400 doctors took part in each program.

A primary care group based workshop was organized in Khulna as well as an outdoor patient camp and a doctors’ conference was included in the program. BLF is associated with IPCRG, Bangladesh chapter.

New lease of life for asthma patientsThis was an advocacy campaign for promoting smooth transition to CFC-free inhalers, formally completed In light of the Montreal Protocol. Bangladesh was committed to the introduction of CFC-free inhalers within 2012. The BLF embarked on a well-planned advocacy campaign with the objective of creating awareness about CFC-free inhalers among the prescribers and users of inhalers on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Environment of the Bangladesh government. It was inaugurated by the Honorable President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in October 2009 and formally closed in March 2012 by the Minister of Health in the presence of the members of Medical and Technical Options Committee of the Montreal Protocol. The campaign has been endorsed as an ideal one by the United Nations Environment Programme. It consisted of a total of 21 meetings, each attended by an average of 200 doctors, held throughout the country. Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd, the leading manufacturer of CFC-free inhalers in the country, sponsored the campaign and achieved total CFC-free compliance status in March.