'Illegal levels of pollution' choking hundreds of Manchester kids as hospital admissions soar, campaigners say - Manchester Evening News

'Illegal levels of pollution' choking hundreds of Manchester kids as hospital admissions soar, campaigners say - Manchester Evening News

“We were given inhalers, but sometimes the inhalers weren’t enough"

Manchester’s failure to curb air pollution is sending more children to hospital

Campaign group Mums for Lungs once again have Manchester’s air quality in their sights after their latest FOI request revealed that the number of babies and young children admitted to the city’s hospitals with breathing problems has risen by a third. Just over a year ago the group disclosed that Greater Manchester had the highest proportion of children being hospitalised for asthma, 65% more than the average.  The new figures show that in the un…