Cork mother appeals to the Health Minister over daughter's illness
She is calling for the legalisation of a form of cannabis.
A Cork woman is pleading with the new Health Minister to consider legalising a form of cannabis that could ease her daughter's epileptic seizures.
Vera Twomey's six year old daughter Ava suffers from Dravet syndrome which is a rare and incurable form of epilepsy and she can suffer from up to five seizures a day.
However the seizures caused by it could be eased by medication which contains cannabidiol, which is derived from cannabis.
Vera highlighted her campaign on Cork's RedFM earlier this year and is now making a freash appeal to the new Minister for Health.
It follows a fundraising campaign by another Cork mother last year who was trying to bring her son to the US to be given cannabis oil to treat Dravet syndrome.
Vera Twomey is urging Simon Harris to hear her out.
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