A two-year-old girl with severe epilepsy is believed to have become the first child in the UK to be prescribed medical cannabis.
For Jorja Emerson the treatment is “the difference between her living and dying”, according to her father.
Jorja, who is from Dundonald in County Down, Northern Ireland, suffers up to 30 seizures each day. She was prescribed the medication at a private hospital in London on Tuesday.
Although there are other children who are currently receiving medical cannabis treatment in the UK, this is the first time a prescription has been written by a doctor since the drug was rescheduled on November 1, according to campaign group End Our Pain.
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