The last year has been a blur of medication, hospital visits and paramedic callouts for Rachael (who doesn’t want her surname used) and her two children. “One night my son was unresponsive. He just went limp in my arms,” she says. “I was crying on the phone to the ambulance, saying you better hurry up and get here.”
Neither Rachael nor her son had serious respiratory problems before they moved into a flat in Salford last year. During her five visits to hospital, she says, doctors warned that chronic damp and mould in her home were probably to blame.
