SA high asthma death rate

Florentia Roman

13 September 2012

South Africa has the world’s fourth highest asthma death rate among those aged five to 35.

This is according to a recent report by the Global Initiative for Asthma. 

An asthma education initiative called Breathe Free to help raise public awareness around the disease WAS recently launched. 

Medical advisor Dr Jaco van Zyl says in South Africa asthma is the third most common cause of hospital admissions of children and yet only two-percent of asthmatics receive treatment