Terminally ill child ‘too sick’ to benefit from treatment

A SERIOUSLY ill pre-school girl has been told her terminal neurological condition has progressed too far for her to be accepted onto a life-saving medical trial.

The parents of four-year-old Amelia Ryczan, from Co Monaghan, were told in recent days that their only daughter cannot be helped by the New York Cornell Medical Centre

The little girl is a sufferer of Battens disease, a rare neuro-degenerative condition that is known to affect fewer than a dozen children on both sides of the border.