Cork mum leaves sick child to continue protest walk
Vera Twomey says the contents of an email she received from the Health Minister amounts to nothing and did nothing to help prevent the seizure her daughter had this morning.
Simon Harris emailed the Aghabullog woman, who is campaigning for medicinal cannabis for her seven-year-old daughter Ava who suffers from a rare, and said that efforts were being made to progress the Compassionate Access Programme.
However Vera says a serious seizure Ava suffered this morning proves the efforts being made by the Department of Health aren't good enough because at the moment it's all talk and no action and Ava is continuing to suffer.
An application for medicinal cannabis was turned down as a pediatric neurologist hadn't signed off on it.
Vera is currently on day four of her protest walk from Cork to the Dáil and is now in Cashel after covering around 120 kilometers.
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