World Hepatitis Day is observed on 28th July

Islamabad: World Hepatitis Day is being observed today all over the world including Pakistan.

Various seminars and awareness walks will be organized across the district by the Health department as well as private organizations.

Pakistan Medical Association President Dr Sikandar Warriach said that World Hepatitis Day is observed every year, aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis a group of infectious diseases known as hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E, and encourage prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

He said that hepatitis affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, causing acute and chronic diseases and killing close to 1.34 million people every year.

Hepatitis can cause inflammation of the liver both acutely and chronically and can kill a person.