Plea for Bromsgrove to offer Hope for Georgia

Buy photos Natalie Naughton with her daughter Georgia. Picture by Marcus Mingins 3712010MMR

A CAMPAIGN has been launched in a bid to raise 20,000 so a Bromsgrove toddler with Cerebral Palsy can have pioneering treatment in America to enable her to walk.

Hope for Georgia has been started for Georgia Almquest who is two next month and whose condition means she has spactisity in all four of her limbs, preventing her from being able to hold her head up, sit, or crawl.

Doctors have said it is unlikely Georgia would ever be able to walk, but hope has been provided for her and her parents Natalie Naughton and Dan Almquest by fetal stem cell therapy which is available across the Atlantic.

That sees stem cells inserted to repair damaged or dead cells in the brain or other parts of the body.

As well as giving Georgia a better quality of life, it is thought to be the only hope she has of walking.

The treatment is not currently available in the UK, but can be done in America.

Mum Natalie has held a consultation about Georgias condition and treatment and 1,950 of the 20,000 has been raised so far.

Natalie told The Standard: Georgia is a really happy little girl who loves music and playing.

She is really interactive with us and everyone she meets, its just her physical difficulties she struggles with.

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Plea for Bromsgrove to offer Hope for Georgia