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Wales Online
Health
Mark Smith

'Living in Wales should not be a barrier to optimum care': One woman's battle to access treatment for her life-threatening condition

When Dalila Tremarias lived in England she was diagnosed with lupus nephritis, a life-threatening condition that causes her immune system to mistakenly attack her healthy kidneys.

Thankfully she was able to receive specialist medical care from a multi-disciplinary team of NHS experts who got her flare-ups under control and stabilised her incurable illness.

However, after moving to Wales she discovered that the same standard of care she received across the border did not exist here, leaving her kidneys and other organs at risk of being irreversibly damaged.

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