Dance-loving toddler will lose ability to move without unfunded drug
Kia ora neighbours, a Parakai toddler who loves to dance may soon be unable to walk or stand if medicine for her rare condition stays unfunded.
Two-year-old Zoey Butcher was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type 3 (SMA) in March and her mum, Chauntel Wedlake, said the treatments available were unfunded in Aotearoa and cost more than $400,000 a year.
Without the treatment, Wedlake said, Zoey would be “devastated” as she would no longer be able to dance.
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