Scots boy refused cannabis oil on NHS for violent epileptic seizures thrown lifeline by generous company
dailyrecord.co.ukNHS for his epilepsy have been thrown a lifeline by a generous company.Little Murray Gray, eight, from Edinburgh needs cannabis oil to prevent debilitating epileptic seizures.But the medicine costs £1,400 a month which his family have been fundraising to pay for - despite the medicine being available on the NHS for the past two years.Murray was diagnosed with Doose syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, in 2017 and had up to 12 seizures a day.After he ended up in a vegetative state in hospital, his mum, Karen, 46, from Edinburgh, smuggled cannabis-based drugs containing previously banned tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) into Scotland to save her son’s life.Since he started taking Bedrolite and Bedica – now legally approved for use – he has been.
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