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PHARMAC appeal on treatment for ultra-rare blood disease
New Zealanders rallying PHARMAC for life-saving
treatment for ultra-rare blood disease
Eight Kiwis
battling an ultra-rare blood disease that claims the lives
of one-in-three patients within five years of diagnosis, if
untreated, will be appealing to PHARMAC this Thursday,
January 24, to save their lives.
A life-saving
treatment renowned for its powerful reversal of disease
progression, is available under funding arrangements in more
than 40 countries world-wide.
Yet New Zealand remains an anomaly – the only country in the advanced OECD not funding the treatment for its citizens.
If these Kiwis don’t get access to this treatment, they will die. It’s simply a matter of time.
Their only hope for survival rests in the hands of NZ government medicines-funding agency, PHARMAC.
ENDS
Download full media kit THURS, JAN 24 @ www.pnhsanz.org.nz/media
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