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Holyoke City Council seeks solutions to reduce city’s high asthma rate
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
HOLYOKE The City Council’s Public Safety Committee, health and medical professionals continue a push to reduce the city’s asthma rate, one of the highest in Massachusetts and the nation.
The committee held a virtual session Wednesday chaired by Ward 2 City Councilor Terence Murphy, whose constituents, particularly children, experience higher than average asthma rates.
Murphy said the goal was to improve the air quality for residents who suffer from the condition. Asthma also affects the public schools’ chronic absentee figures. Murphy has held a series of meetings on the subject.