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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Sophie Halle-Richards

'The kids' coughs aren't going away and I'm panicking': Mum's despair as doctor raises concerns over mould-infested home

Inside Kym Austin's kitchen, three small blue inhalers are neatly lined up in a row, next to an assortment of tablets and cough syrups.

One of her three children was diagnosed with asthma last month, and her other two children have been in and out of their doctors surgery for persistent coughs and chest infections.

She says she's been warned by a doctor that their infections are likely to be a direct result of the mould infestation at her three-bedroom home in Salford, and will likely only get worse. A doctor wrote to a letter to her housing association saying exactly that.

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