Sick teenager refused treatment due to his postcode
A seriously ill Northern Ireland teenager has been told he is not eligible for a potentially life-saving drug due to his postcode. 13 year old Curtis Croskery from Killyleagh, County Down needs a specialist drug called polyglobin. While this has been approved for other patients in England, Curtis’s distraught mum, Lorraine Croskery, says that the Belfast Trust in NI are refusing to pay for it as they say it is unlicenced.Curtis was born with a rare genetic condition – agammaglobulinemia – which means he has a severely compromised immune system, and his body is unable to fight infection,