(Kaieteur News) – An Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara (ECD) resident says the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to act on repeated complaints about dust and noise pollution from a neighbouring furniture-making operation, even as her chronic asthma has landed her in hospital multiple times a week since May.

Romila Sharma told Kaieteur News that a home-based furniture business next door has been sending large volumes of sawdust drifting into her yard, a trigger she says has put her in and out of hospital for the past two months.

“I am a chronic asthma patient, and since May, I have been in and out of the hospital receiving treatment due to severe respiratory distress caused by a massive volume of sawdust continuously blowing into my yard from my neighbour’s property,” Sharma said.