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CHILDREN desperate to live a normal life are being abandoned by the NHS which is refusing to fund operations that could allow them to walk.
While trusts around the country agree to fund the ?23,000 operation, NHS bosses in Gloucestershire are ignoring the desperate pleas of parents and dashing the hopes of these five children, who just want to be like any other child.
All these children have spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, and need surgery if they are to avoid life consigned to a wheelchair.
But there is hope. Pioneering surgery called selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) could change their lives forever.
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co...ife-changing/story-18208351-detail/story.html
While trusts around the country agree to fund the ?23,000 operation, NHS bosses in Gloucestershire are ignoring the desperate pleas of parents and dashing the hopes of these five children, who just want to be like any other child.
All these children have spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, and need surgery if they are to avoid life consigned to a wheelchair.
But there is hope. Pioneering surgery called selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) could change their lives forever.
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co...ife-changing/story-18208351-detail/story.html