MSP backsMS support event
A Renfrewshire MSP has thrown her support behind an event designed to raise awareness of a neurological condition.
Natalie Don is backing MS Awareness Week, which runs until May 1.
It is aimed at highlighting the chronic wasting disease of the central nervous system, brain and spinal cord.
The Renfrewshire North and West politician backed the event, saying: “MS Awareness Week is an important event to help highlight the problems facing people with MS and supporting the charities and groups which help them.”
This year’s event focuses on ‘uncertainty’, because MS is unpredictable and different for everyone living with it.
As a fluctuating condition people have good days and bad and face not knowing how symptoms might change, how their condition may progress or whether treatments will work.
The SNP’s Natalie, added: “I met with the MS Society Scotland earlier this year where the issue of uncertainty was raised with me. It comes as no surprise then to find that a recent survey carried out for MS Awareness Week by MS Society Scotland revealed that 67 per cent of respondents living with MS said they were ‘scared and uncertain about the future’.
“Rises in the cost of living present an acute challenge for people living with disabilities in general and MS in particular.
“Before the pandemic MS Society Scotland estimated that the average person living with MS faced additional costs of between £600£1000 per month, depending on the severity of their condition.
“I welcome MS Awareness week as a chance to highlight this important issue and to support the work of charities, such as the MS Society Scotland and the MS Trust in raising awareness of MS and campaigning for better care and funding research to stop MS.”