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January 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Parents have spent £10,000 taking Zac abroad for immediate treatment for neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer that only affects children
- Schoolboy will undergo an operation tomorrow in an attempt to remove
three diseased lymph nodes
By
Claire Ellicott and Katherine Faulkner
Last updated at 8:09 AM on 10th January 2012
Emergency: Zac’s parent’s are taking him to Germany for immediate treatment
A mother yesterday flew her son to Germany for a lifesaving operation after two NHS hospitals delayed his treatment for lack of beds.
Fearing another 11th-hour cancellation, Sam Knighton has spent £10,000 taking Zac abroad for immediate treatment for neuroblastoma, a form of cancer.
The seven-year-old will be operated on tomorrow at the University Hospital Greifswald in an attempt to remove three diseased lymph nodes.
Last night, Miss Knighton, 43, told the Daily Mail: ‘I feel like Zac’s country has let him down.
‘I have had to fight, argue and question everything along the way to help my son.
‘I just hope we’re in time – it could already be too late.
‘I dread to think what would have happened if we’d stayed in England.’
Zac began showing symptoms of the disease in October 2008.
He saw two GPs, both of whom missed the neuroblastoma, passing the swelling off as a stomach upset. Finally, a third GP referred him for tests.
Zac was diagnosed with grade four neuroblastoma, a cancer of the developing nervous tissue. There was a 5in-long tumour in his stomach.
Miss Knighton said: ‘The specialist came
in to examine Zac. He lifted up his T-shirt and said: ‘How in God’s
name did two doctors miss that?”
Zac was referred to Leicester Royal
Infirmary where he began chemotherapy in March 2009 and then a procedure
to remove the tumour.
The hospital told Miss Knighton and
her partner Bob Smith, 42, a forklift truck driver, there could still be
‘residual disease’ around the tumour site.
Tragic: Cousins Chelsea Knighton when she was aged three pictured left and Zac pictured right, when he was aged five, were both diagnosed with neuroblastoma
No other option: Zac, pictured centre with his parents, Bob Smith left, and Sam Knighton, right who are taking him abroad for a lifesaving operation
More chemotherapy followed but a delay for a separate illness meant Zac missed the deadline for a vital course of antibody therapy.
The NHS paid for this in Germany where doctors removed a tumour near Zac’s heart that surgeons at Leicester had deemed too dangerous to treat. Incredibly, the UK medics had not told Zac’s family about it.
Miss Knighton added: ‘I feel the NHS has let my son down at every stage. It is incredible that I have to go to Germany.
‘It is disgusting that this country
doesn’t offer everything it can to save these children. It’s like we
live in a third world country.’
Although
Zac was given the all-clear in February 2011, a follow-up scan in May
in Germany showed three diseased lymph nodes in his abdomen.
Drug treatment failed and the family was
told last month that Zac needed another operation. Although a surgeon
was available at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre on December 22, no
paediatric beds were free until January 19.
Miss Knighton’s complaints saw her offered an operation at Leicester on January 4.
But this was cancelled barely half an hour before Zac left for hospital. Again, a bed shortage was blamed.
‘I phoned the consultant in Germany and he could do it right away,’
Miss Knighton said. ‘I just got straight on the phone to book flights. It was my son’s life and I didn’t care how much it cost.
‘Every day counts with this disease and I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if the NHS delay cost him his life.’
Johannes Visser, a consultant paediatric oncologist at Leicester who has been caring for Zac since 2009, said:
‘Unfortunately,
our unit was extraordinarily busy with critically ill children needing
help to breathe, so his operation was rescheduled.’
A
spokesman for Nottingham University Hospitals said: ‘The first date we
offered for Zac’s operation was January 19, which the family have chosen
not to accept, and therefore we haven’t cancelled any surgery.’
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To Alicia (Beautiful name by the way) in Singapore 11:22 Thats all very well to suggest that ‘filthy rich’ footballers, whether they play for United or whoever, should pay for this lads treatment. Why stop there, what about Bankers, or pehaps the PM paying for the treatment of a sick child of a Tory Supporter, everybody pays NI, (or they should do) even stinking rich footballers, therefore its the job of the NHS to use those funds appropriatley and not squander them on non essenial treatment, such as the chase for a beautiful body.
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Cameron you should start looking after your own people before you send our money abroad….
– wind , in the willows, 10/1/2012 11:02
I think you will find he has done by vetoing the treaty last year because his people are the bankers not you scuzzy lot, when are you lot going to wake up!!!
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Its because our Health Service has become a World Health Service, treating anybody and everybody who comes into this country, whether or not they have paid into the system. Also, there is the misappropriation of NHS funds when people use the service for the purpose of vanity, i.e ‘Boob Jobs’ or so somone can have a sex change. There has got to be a change where people who are solely sick, injured, in pain or to correct a physical defect is treated by the NHS and NOT people who have come here from abroad to abuse the system, or those seeking the perfect body. If this was to happen, the parents of young Zac would not have to pay additional funds, on top their NI contributions, into seeing that their son receives the appropriate treatment.
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Maybe the UK should stop spending money on conflicts that has got nothing to do with it?
The poor boy seems to be a fan of Man United…maybe the rich boys of MU should collectively pay for this boy?
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GOOD LUCK LITTLE MAN! xx GET WELL SOON!
Praying that the operation is successful.
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“The NHS paid for this in Germany ….”
“Miss Knighton added: ‘I feel the NHS has let my son down at every stage”
I don’t understand how these two comments are reconcileable.
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Cameron you should start looking after your own people before you send our money abroad….
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“A spokesman for Nottingham University Hospitals said: ‘The first date we offered for Zac’s operation was January 19, which the family have chosen not to accept, and therefore we haven’t cancelled any surgery.” What does Nottingham have to do with anything…it’s LEICESTER University Hospitals
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It isn’t only the MP’s with their snouts in the trough A survey needs to be carried out as to the remuneration and “expenses” paid to those who describe themselves as Chief Executive Officer in hospitals. At one time ,not so many years ago at that, a Hospital Secretary was accountable (note the word) for the administration of the hospital facilities and the Medical Staff Committee for the clinical aspects. Since then a hospital has become a “business” with all it’s trappings where “managers” proliferate and demand a string of subordinates. Thus the “life blood” of the hospital, it’s patients, are subjugated to the concept of “profit and loss”. Earlier I stated accountable – what has happened is that the word has been replaced with “responsibility” to enable any amount of “passing the buck” to arise.
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If it were a royal child no doubt a commoner would have been pushed ou to make way.
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