A Cork mother said she is left with no option other than to try and raise as much awareness as possible in an effort to break 30-yr-old Minister for Health Simon Harris and make him give her daughter Ava the medicinal cannabis so she desperately deserves.
Vera Twomey is beside herself with frustration after meeting the Minister of Health Simon Harris last week who has denied her the medication.
Vera told Harris for the fourth time how her 6-yr-old daughter Ava has a very rare form of epilepsy which she has been informed can be helped by taking medicinal cannabis.
Little Ava can have up to 20 seizures a day.
Harris has told Vera that she cannot get the medication to help treat her daughter because she hasn’t been prescribed it by a pediatric brain specialist and that they won’t make an exception.
She has now started to walk from Cork to Dublin in an effort to gain enough public support to get Harris to do the right thing.
Vera said if herself and her husband Paul had emigrated to Australia in 2007, she could get the medication over there at this stage.
Vera’s friends have appealed for sharing of this article to highlight her story and put as much pressure of Harris as possible.