‘Illnesses at crisis levels’

ALMOST 70 per cent of people who died from asthma in Scotland last year were female, a charity has revealed.

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation revealed yesterday that death rates from the respiratory illness are at “crisis levels” after 96 people died from the condition last year.

Chief executive Martina Chukwuma-Ezike said the number of women dying from the condition was “of even greater alarm”, with figures showing 64 out of 96 of those who died were women – 67 per cent of the total deaths.

A total of 1,162 people in Scotland have died from the condition in the last decade.