VICTORIA'S Inspector-General of Emergency Management will lead a review of the emergency response during last week's "thunderstorm asthma event" (PD 23 Nov).
Pharmacies in Melbourne were inundated with patients referred from hospital emergency departments seeking inhaler medication to deal with the crisis.
Vic health minister Jill Hennessy said it was a "health emergency of an unprecedented scale, and we have an obligation to ensure that we learn every lesson there is to learn from this event".
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