A Lanarkshire mum who believes her son went blind resulting from contaminated water at his college is planning to journey to Germany for specialist remedy.
Josephine Morgan, of Plains, claims chemical compounds from the St Ambrose and Buchanan Excessive campus in Coatbridge are the reason for her son Tommi’s eye issues.
The varsity was constructed on a former industrial waste website and hit the headlines in 2019 over claims “blue water” ran from faucets.
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Nonetheless, an unbiased evaluation commissioned by the Scottish Authorities in 2019 discovered no hyperlink to ailing well being.
Tommi was 13 when, in 2018, he misplaced his sight utterly after all of the sudden creating an ulcer on his proper cornea.
Josephine, 44, claims he additionally examined constructive for heavy steel poisoning.
She has now launched a Simply Giving web page and is fundraising to journey to Berlin for Tommi to bear electrical stimulation remedy at a clinic specialising in restorative eye procedures.
She defined: “Tommi shedding his sight devastated him and turned his entire life the wrong way up.
“Even when this provides him 10 per cent imaginative and prescient, as his mum, I wouldn’t forgive myself if I didn’t do all the pieces to assist him.
“They are saying there's a excessive probability they may also help restore a few of his imaginative and prescient.” It can value £12,000 for Tommi, who has autism, to bear the 10-day remedy."
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His former college campus was constructed on the previous landfill website utilized by Gartsherrie Ironworks for industrial waste between 1945 and 1972.
Josephine added: “I discussed the blue water and the varsity being constructed on an outdated industrial waste website and Tommi’s marketing consultant who taken care of his eyes advised me it was ‘very related’ and received him examined for heavy steel poisoning.
"I then received a name from the native GP when the outcomes got here in and was completely horrified he was constructive.”
John Logan, public well being marketing consultant at NHS Lanarkshire, stated: “An in depth investigation by the NHS Lanarkshire Directorate of Public Well being was carried out in relation to St Ambrose and Buchanan excessive colleges which discovered no proof of any well being dangers related to the colleges.”
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