Two families have to raise tens of thousands for medical treatments for their kids. But you can’t escape the growing suspicion of exploitation that hangs over the whole bad show
What an extremely odd experience watching Save My Child was. It was the tale of two families’ attempts to raise money for operations and therapies abroad for their children that the NHS does not fund.
Teenager Mia has scoliosis and wears a painful, restrictive back brace 23 hours a day. She has a year to wait before she qualifies for the operation to realign and fuse her spine that is the standard NHS treatment for her condition. She and her mother Jo want her to have a new procedure (known as VBT) sooner, in Turkey. It will cost £32,000 and, having reined in the family spending long ago, they now set up a JustGiving page and embark on a fundraising programme full of coffee mornings, sponsored runs and other activities to amass the rest of the sum before Mia’s curvature becomes too pronounced for this operation to help.
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