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So near … yet health board places them far apart

THEY live a mile from each other on Glasgow's outskirts and suffer the same rare disease – but their lives are veering down opposite paths.

sufferers: Lesley Loeliger's life has been changed by eculizumab but NHS GCC refuses to fund the same treatment for William Devine. Picture: Mark Mainz
sufferers: Lesley Loeliger's life has been changed by eculizumab but NHS GCC refuses to fund the same treatment for William Devine. Picture: Mark Mainz

Lesley Loeliger, of Newton Mearns, is taking the first treatment licensed for patients with PNH. She is no longer housebound with exhaustion or haunted by the prospect of dying while her children are at school.