'Exceptional response' to thunderstorm asthma saved lives: Inspector-General

Emergency services faced with an unprecedented health crisis they could not have understood moved swiftly to curb the fallout from last year's thunderstorm asthma event that claimed nine lives, a review has found.
Tony Pearce, the Inspector-General for Emergency Services, said more lives could have been lost had it not been for the response of the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority, Ambulance Victoria, the Health Department and hospitals.....

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Andrews Government introduces $1 million thunderstorm asthma plan

The Victorian Government is set to introduce a new and expanded pollen monitoring network as part of a $1 million package to combat thunderstorm asthma.
The package, which also includes new funding to understand and predict the phenomenon of thunderstorm asthma comes after Minister for Health Jill Hennessy today released the preliminary report into the unprecedented meteorological event that plagued Melbourne late last year.
Nine people died and approximately 8500 people were hospitalised after the storm, in what the report now labels a rapid-onset event never before seen in Victoria.....

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Family grieve the loss of 20-year-old who died after severe asthma attack

A 20-year-old Irish man has died after suffering a severe asthma attack last week.
Tiernan Green from Derrymacash in Armagh, died suddenly after suffering a fatal asthma attack.
The footballing talent played for Sarsfield GFC and is the second man from the Lurgan area in Armagh to die suddenly in the past week.....

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