Death of child from mould in home triggers questions over housing policies

The death of a 2 year old boy caused by mould in his housing association flat has sparked a national conversation about conditions in public housing and highlighted the lack of a system for alerting health professionals to concerns.Joanne Kearsley, the coroner who investigated the death of Awaab Ishak, asked, “How in the UK in 2020 does a 2 year old child die as a result of exposure to mould?”Awaab died in December 2020 from acute airway oedema with severe granulomatous tracheobronchitis because of environmental mould exposure, Kearsley concluded this week. He shared a one bedroom flat owned by Rochdale Boroughwide Housing with his parents, Faisal Abdullah and Aisha Amin, who had come to the UK from Sudan.Abdullah reported the mould to the housing association from 2017 and each time was told to paint over it. But the coroner found that he had not understood that he should use anti-mould…
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