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Josie Adnitt & Dominic Picksley

Boy has spent entire life in hospital as doctors 'scared' to discharge him, says mum

A mother from Preston is fighting with a hospital to let her baby son come home after spending much of his short life on a medical ward.

Rowan-George Woodruff is only one and was born with atresia, a condition in his throat, which means he has no upper airway or windpipe. He had a tracheotomy soon after birth, which doctors say needs constant monitoring.

To allow him to breathe, an airway was built using his ribcage and through his voice box.

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