No timeline set for Ava’s Protocol on medicinal cannabis in hospitals

Cork girl Ava Barry was given medical cannabis for treatment of seizures but her mother was the only person licensed to administer it

The late Ava Barry with her mother Vera. Picture: Denis Minihane

No date has been set for the implementation of a protocol recommended by the jurors in the inquest of Cork girl Ava Barry, whose mother successfully fought for access to medicinal cannabis to treat her epileptic seizures.

The 13-year-old from Aghabullogue was provided with access to medicinal cannabis for treatment for seizures arising from a form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome, after a campaign by her mother Vera Twomey.