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Cost of living: Mum torn between keeping disabled son healthy and other children fed | ITV News

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Cost of living: Mum torn between keeping disabled son healthy and other children fed  | ITV News

For 10-year-old Mikey Newlands, keeping the power on round the clock is literally a matter of life or death.

He has complex medical needs that requiring a lot of life-saving equipment that keep him alive.

From a ventilator to keep him breathing to a tube that feeds him – all of it needs to be kept plugged in 24 hours a day.

His mum, Chevonne Newlands, is his full-time carer and unable to work. So the family rely on her partner’s wage.

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