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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 New Zealand: DHB delays treatment application for teenager in coma 🌿New Zealand: DHB delays treatment application for teenager in coma
Alex Renton, 19, of Nelson is in an induced coma in Wellington Hospital while his family fights to get him medicinal marijuana.
The bureaucratic delay in treating a teenager in an induced coma in Wellington Hospital is bordering on unethical, Labour MP Damien O'Connor says.
Alex Renton, 19, of Nelson, has been in hospital since early April and remains in "status epilepticus", a kind of prolonged seizure.
Capital & Coast District Health Board decided late on Friday to apply to the Ministry of Health for approval to use a marijuana extract to treat him.
His mother, Rose Renton, is begging the Government to approve treatment for her son, who has already endured more than 20 medications that have not worked.
The ministry is yet to receive the DHB's application. A DHB spokeswoman said staff would work on the application on Monday, and was expected it would be sent to the...
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