Lisa Quarrell forks out over £1,500 every 28 days for Bendrolite; a cannabis-based oil to prevent her 11-year-old son, Cole Thomson, from having dangerous seizures
A Lanarkshire single mum is begging the Scottish Government for help as the cost of her son's 'life-saving' cannabis medication has doubled in just four years.
Lisa, from East Kilbride, has had to find more than £80,000 over the years to afford twice-daily injections of the oil that is placed via syringe under Cole's tongue. The project officer is also snowed under with electricity bills that have 'more than doubled' while 'paying £200 more each month' for her mortgage.An 'exhausted' Lisa now demands 'answers' from First Minister Humza Yousaf, who promised when he was health minister he would look into her case, and is begging for financial help.
"But it's a sad fact, Cole is 11 years old, he's not a 'cute wee boy' anymore. We need financial help for the foreseeable. There is no 'end goal' or 'end point' like an operation for example. People may start to get annoyed and stop donating.We told how Cole receives the cannabinoid Bedrolite privately as his NHS consultant is not allowed to prescribe unlicensed medical cannabis due to a lack of robust evidence of the drug's safety, quality or efficacy.
Lisa added: "When Humza Yousaf was Health Minister he promised me 'as a father and a step-father' that he would 'look into and sort' our issue as he 'could not understand' why we weren't getting the help we needed."The Government have said in the past that they are awaiting more trials to get more evidence to enable the drug to be prescribed, but I've seen nothing of that.
A Scottish Government Spokesperson said: "We have enormous sympathy for Cole Thomson and his family, and the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer is in regular contact with them. We deeply appreciate the very difficult situation any family will face in these circumstances.
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