Severely ill children are being left to suffer without their medication because the Government still has not allowed medical cannabis to be covered under the drug payment, medical card, or long-term illness schemes.
Noreen O’Neill, whose four-year-old son Michael is severely epileptic, said although she can technically be prescribed medicinal cannabis in Ireland, she cannot afford its €1,200 per month price tag and is buying in non-medical grade CBD oil from the UK instead for £400 (€443) per month.
She said families are desperate and sick children are being abandoned by the State because the Medical Cannabis Access Programme, which should have been operating more than a year ago, is still not functioning.
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