Posted: Dec 17, 2020 12:47 PM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Ella Kissi-Debrah died in hospital in 2013 at the age of nine, after an asthma attack. She lived just metres away from one of London s busiest roadways.(Ella Roberta Family Foundation)
On Feb. 14, 2013, nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah woke up in the bed of her southeast London home with an asthma attack. Her family called an ambulance and she was taken to hospital, one of dozens of such trips she had to take since she was first diagnosed with asthma.
That visit to hospital, however, would be her last. Kissi-Debrah died the next day.
A new inquest into her death has found that air pollution in the neighbourhood where she lived exceeded guidelines set by the World Health Organization, and that this pollution largely from traffic emissions contributed to Ella s death.
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In a first, air pollution recorded as factor in 9-year-old UK girl s death certificate
A UK coroner has held that air pollution made a material contribution to Ella s death. This is first case in the UK where poor air quality has been recorded as a factor on a death certificate.
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The victim, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, died in February 2013. (Photo: AFP)
A coroner in the UK has ruled that air pollution contributed to the death of a nine-year-old girl who died in 2013 after a serious asthma attack. This is the first legal case in the UK where air pollution has be held responsible for someone s death.
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