Bronx Organizations Pushing for Environmental Justice with High Asthma Rates in Community
CBS New York
By: Shosh Bedrosian
NEW YORK - "How many people in this room know someone or are someone who has asthma?" Dariella Rodriguez asked a group of students at an evening event at The Point CDC in Hunts Point.
It's common to find someone in the South Bronx who has asthma.
"Most of all my friends and all my family," South Bronx resident Melody Holloway said. "The clinics are filled. Everyone is having asthma and is waiting on treatments."
"I was in and out of the hospitals, growing up my mom was in and out of the hospitals herself," Nina Hernandez, another South Bronx resident, said.
