Debate contribution: Alfie Pentony: Availability of NICE-approved Drug
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 18 February 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Alfie Pentony: Availability of NICE-approved Drug
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4806419
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I assure the Member that I am on that case. It is a matter of coincidence, I believe, that one of the very first events that I went to in this Building after being elected for the first time in 2011 was organised by my predecessor as Minister of Health, Robin Swann. It was a constituency event about Duchenne, so it has been on my radar for a long time. I am now aware that the new drug is becoming available, and I do not want to see it restricted from young men. This young man will lose the power to walk, I understand, in relatively short order if we do not do something.
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