Letchworth charity set to help war heroes to breathe

08:32 05 March 2015

by Rebecca Day

Carol Freeman, Sue Filby, Ian Maitland and David Powell inside the chamber

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A Letchworth-based charity is offering oxygen therapy treatment to injured soldiers after being inspired by how the treatment helped a former paratrooper who lost both legs and suffered brain damage after fighting in Afghanistan.

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The Hertfordshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre wants anyone who has sustained injuries while serving in the armed forces to come forward, to see if the treatment can help change their lives like it did for soldier Ben Parkinson.

Ben who lost both legs and was in a coma for four months from a bomb explosion can now walk using crutches, and has improved speech after he underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy, in which pure oxygen is breathed through a mask in a special chamber.

Charity chief executive Mark Boscher, pictured above right, said: We were so inspired by Bens story and thought: wouldnt it be brilliant if we could make contact with injured people living locally, and help them just like Ben was helped?

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