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Article: Ministers anger asthma sufferers
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 10, 1996
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Ministers faced criticism from asthma sufferers and family
doctors last night, after refusing to make the reduction of asthma
a key target in the Health of the Nation campaign.
The decision disappointed doctors and more than 2 million
sufferers who have been pressing the Government to include asthma
in the list of diseases to be tackled by special measures. The
condition was excluded from the Health of the Nation strategy
launched in July 1992 by Virginia Bottomley, then Secretary of
State for Health.
Although the incidence of asthma is increasing, for reasons
which have yet to be fully understood, it will not be included
among the targets set for reducing the rates of death or serious ...