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Daily Record
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Vivienne Aitken

£6m needed to tackle ME crisis as patients demand action over increasing long covid fears

Thousands of ME patients are demanding action to ring-fence £6million a year to treat them.

A charity supporting people with the condition is planning a protest outside the Scottish Parliament amid claims they are “stigmatised and neglected by medical and social services who turn a deaf ear to their plight”.

MEAction Scotland is calling for the sum to be spent every year on specialist medical care and treatment.

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