Air pollution clinic in London aims to help children with asthma

Almost 60% of the clinic’s patients live within a two-minute walk of a busy road. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

The deaths of two young children, Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013 and Awaab Ishak in 2020, have highlighted the consequences of breathing in air pollution and beingexposed to mould in our homes.

Now a clinic at the NHS Royal London hospital is bringing together academic innovations on children’s environmental exposure to try to help patients.