AIR POLLUTION Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died on February 15, 2013 from a severe asthma attack. She is, to date, the only person to have air pollution listed as their official cause of death, attributed to the high levels of pollutants in Lewisham, South London, where the nine-year-old’s family lived.
“As her mother, all I want is to have my daughter back, but I know she won’t come back, and the fact is that Ella’s death will end up saving millions of lives,” Ella’s mother Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah tells The Big Issue.
According to figures released in 2022, around 97 per cent of addresses in the UK are surrounded by unsafe levels of air pollution, and nearly 40,000 people are estimated to die prematurely from its effects every year.
Initially, Adoo-Kissi-Debrah had no…
