Keratoconus

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 3:22 pm on 25 April 2018.

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Photo of Adam Price Adam Price Plaid Cymru 3:22, 25 April 2018

(Translated)

Cross-linking treatment was available for Welsh people who had this condition at Bristol Eye Hospital until 2015. Since then, I've had one case of an 18-year-old young woman whose eyesight was deteriorating, and she was advised that the condition was developing quickly. Her mother decided to pay for private treatment because she feared blindness. Since then, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg is providing this treatment once again. But we've experienced a situation where many people have been caught falling between these two time periods where they had no option apart from to go private. Can the Cabinet Secretary look into these cases and look at the anxiety that this caused and the possibility of repaying the costs of my constituent and others?