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陌生人为他的半边大脑治疗买单。卑诗省一分钱也没付。
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译自英文原文。
$195,000母亲在GoFundMe筹得 2
1/2两次赴德治疗后已治疗的动静脉畸形 1
~$55,000预留用于第三次治疗的余额 1
从确诊到治疗过半
实验性还是已有实证?
已知
未知
- 审查没有公开的时间表或标准,对于治疗属于实验性还是已有实证,尚无定论。
- 剩余资金是否足以支付第三次治疗的全部费用。
后续
- 在家人必须预订并支付最后阶段治疗费用之前,卫生部是否会作出资金审批决定。
- 在当地无法提供相关治疗时,省政府是否会明确如何评估境外治疗的必要性。
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- A B.C. boy is halfway to a cure — the province hasn't paid a cent.
- Nathan Hepburn is nine years old. His brain condition can rupture and kill, and the only specialized treatment that can cure it is in Germany.
- The province is reviewing his family's appeal — but there's no decision, no timeline, and the family's money is running out.
- The family has raised $195,000. About $140,000 went to the two treatments completed so far. About $55,000 remains — earmarked for the third treatment needed to finish the job.
- Transvenous embolization is the technique — a specialized approach that reaches the malformation from the venous side and closes it off in stages. That's why it takes multiple treatments, and why Nathan is only halfway there.
- The treatment is not available in Canada in the form Nathan needs. The specialist associated with it is Dr. René Chapot at Alfried Krupp Hospital in Essen, and the doctors consulted on Nathan's case called it the best option.
- The treatment is in Essen, Germany — thousands of kilometres from North Vancouver, and paid for by donations.
- The family, backed by medical groups and the official opposition, calls the treatment proven. The province calls it experimental and has denied funding — and its review of the family's appeal is still underway.
- Nathan's mother, Natasha, a registered nurse, organized the fundraising. The B.C. Nurses Union president, Adrian Gear, wrote to the health minister. The opposition health critic, Dr. Anna Kindy, called again on June 29 for the province to pay.
- Nathan was diagnosed at age five with the most serious grade of this rare malformation. In March, the province denied funding. The family appealed in June. In August, Nathan completed his second round of treatment in Germany. Now he's halfway to a cure, and the appeal is still sitting in administrative review.
- The ministry says an administrative review is underway — the same response the family has heard since June. There is no announced timeline or outcome. And the roughly $55,000 remaining may not cover the full cost of the third treatment. The classification fight — experimental versus proven — remains unresolved by anyone with authority to settle it.
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