I came across an article today regarding a leukemia sufferer who is being refused financial support for a bone marrow transplant.
The article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7257691.stm) states that 68 year-old Alan Francis of Llanelli, Wales, had found a donor in Australia and the operation was scheduled for next month. However he received a phone call saying that funding for the operation had been witheld so it could no longer take place.
Like Mr Francis, I cannot understand how flying some bone marrow from Australia to Wales can be that expensive. Organisations like the NHS (or the HCW in this case) have a duty to help ill people, who have paid taxes all their life, especially if their illness is life-threatening.
It is a subject close to my heart as my step-mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2006. Thankfully she was given the all clear after 12 months of treatment. Had she not been allowed this treatment she would not have survived. I hope Mr Francis finds a way of having the operation he needs.
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If the HCW got rid of all the bigwigs who do nothing all day apart from come up with daft initiatives and targets, then maybe they'd be able to afford to fly the bone marrow from Australia.
How many people wouldn't fly it themselves to Australia for free? I'll take it!
On a more serious note, it is disgraceful and, if there's anything this sort of money should be allocated to, it should be things like this.
Sorry - misread your blog - I thought it said flying to Australia.
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