asthmatic students.

Bermuda Asthma and Allergy Relief Centre president Ms Jenefer Brimmer handed out Asthma education kits to all Bermuda schools at the Belmont Hotel this week to help make teachers more aware of how to deal with asthmatic students.

Ms Brimmer said: "These kits have been donated by the centre to every school on the Island, and they will assist the schools in better managing an asthmatic child during the time they are in school.'' The kits focus on early signs of asthma attack and what teachers and principals need to do.

"The centre's whole focus is educating the customer about their ailment,'' Ms Brimmer said.

She said the kits were purchased from the National Asthma Education Programme in the US and were then donated to the schools.

Ms. Brimmer also said that only four percent of asthmatics are educated about the disease and 59 percent are totally uneducated.

And in a general parish distribution of the asthmatic population in Bermuda Pembroke had 32 percent, Sandys 15 percent, Devonshire 11 percent and Warwick/Southampton had 10 percent.

ASTHMA KITS -- Ms Jenefer Brimmer gives an asthma education kit to Chief Education officer Mr. Dean Furbert.