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Family being 'forced' off Island to secure treatment

The desperate family of a young boy with an aggressive muscle wasting disease say they're being 'forced' to leave the Isle of Man.

Kirstie and Clive Hesketh believe they've been left with no choice after the Manx Government refused to fund a drug called Translana which could help their seven-year-old son Finley. 
 
He is one of a number of sufferers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy on the Island - his family claim he's the only child eligible for the drug here.
 
Translarna has been approved and funded in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but requests for it here have been denied. 
 
Kirstie says that means the family will probably have to relocate: 
 

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