Cayden and Andy Loubser are among potentially thousands of children who had concerns dismissed by NHS Lothian’s audiology team between 2009 and 2018
A scandal-hit NHS service failed to diagnose the hearing loss of two West Lothian brothers for years and wrongly told one he just had ear wax issues.
Mum Cassie and her husband Andries, who stay at Heartlands near Whitburn, are now demanding a public inquiry. Cassie , continued: “When we took him for his baby hearing tests they said that he had a lot of wax build-up in his ears, and that could be impacting on his hearing and we just had to use some ear drops and then take him back.
“He’s a lovely little boy but he is still very dependent on us and he’s very shy in social situations. I wonder sometimes if that’s not due to him missing that initial socialisation period when he was younger because of his hearing.”
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