The brother of a seriously ill boy with epilepsy has hand-delivered a letter to Downing Street asking British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help get a cannabis prescription.
Nine-year-old Thomas Brown wrote to Boris Johnson that his parents should not have “the added concern that they would find a lot of money to pay for his medicine.” His little brother Eddie can suffer up to 100 seizures a day.
According to BBC, Thomas, who said his brother meant “everything” to him, asked the prime minister to help his parents “and other mothers and fathers” who have to raise funds every month to meet medical bills.
“My mom and dad love us both, and they have to help Eddie a lot and sometimes I have to help too. They have the added concern that they have to find a lot of money to pay for his medicine. Many of our friends help. But getting medicine from the government without having to do many things to find the money would help them a lot.He writes in the letter.
Eddie’s family from Farndon, Cheshire, spends almost pa 800 a month on his cannabis medicines, which they say are “life-transforming”.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services said the licensed cannabis-based drugs were “funded by the NHS where there is clear evidence of their safety and clinical effectiveness”.
