A family’s hopes of an end to crippling medical bills have been dashed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who said there is not enough evidence that their little boy’s treatment is safe.
Last month the Daily Record told how Murray Gray’s teenage brother Dean, 14, had written to Sturgeon begging her to help him.
Dean watched in horror as Murray had multiple seizures before ending up in a vegetative state.
Murray, eight, had been diagnosed with Doose syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, in December 2017 and could suffer hundreds of seizures a day.
But after his condition worsened, mum Karen went to the Netherlands to get him cannabis-based drugs with the previously banned tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Within weeks of starting on the medical cannabis, his seizures lessened dramatically – and he’s not had one for two years. The drugs, now legally imported, cost £1300 a month, which puts a huge strain on the Edinburgh family.
Dean, accompanied by Lib Dem health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton, handed his letter into Bute House for Sturgeon. In it he wrote: “I am writing to you about my little brother Murray.
“He is eight years old. He used to have really bad seizures. He has not had a seizure now in two years because my mum got him cannabis oils.”
But he added his parents have to pay for his medicine. He stated: “I don’t think it’s fair that my mum and dad have to pay this. Please can you do…
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A family’s hopes of an end to crippling medical bills have been dashed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who said there is not enough evidence that their little boy’s treatment is safe.
Last month the Daily Record told how Murray Gray’s teenage brother Dean, 14, had written to Sturgeon begging her to help him.
Dean watched in horror as Murray had multiple seizures before ending up in a vegetative state.
Murray, eight, had been diagnosed with Doose syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, in December 2017 and could suffer hundreds of seizures a day.
But after his condition worsened, mum Karen went to the Netherlands to get him cannabis-based drugs with the previously banned tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Within weeks of starting on the medical cannabis, his seizures lessened dramatically – and he’s not had one for two years. The drugs, now legally imported, cost £1300 a month, which puts a huge strain on the Edinburgh family.
Dean, accompanied by Lib Dem health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton, handed his letter into Bute House for Sturgeon. In it he wrote: “I am writing to you about my little brother Murray.
“He is eight years old. He used to have really bad seizures. He has not had a seizure now in two years because my mum got him cannabis oils.”
But he added his parents have to pay for his medicine. He stated: “I don’t think it’s fair that my mum and dad have to pay this. Please can you do…
