Why should Ethan wait?

6:25pm Tuesday 12th June 2007

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THE little boy we featured on the front page of the Warrington Guardian last week - Ethan Connolly - has captured the hearts of many of our readers.

The loveable three-year-old is too young to realise the traumas he faces as his parents battle to get him the operation he needs to help cure the cysts that are distorting his face.

Readers have been quick to respond with cheques starting to arrive and offers of fundraising ideas beginning to emerge.

And that's brilliant. It restores your faith in human nature that people will put themselves out for a stranger.

But what I want to know is WHY has this poor child got to wait to have the operation?

WHY do his parents have to raise funds to send him abroad?

WHY must Ethan suffer while all this is going on?

Surely to goodness anyone can see that this little boy needs help?

Ethan's parents have been told that they must wait until he is a teenager before he can have the operation on the NHS - unless of course something dreadful happens in the meantime.

But that's too long. He needs help now.

Why should poor Ethan have to suffer the inevitable mocking of other children who know no better when he starts school?

And worse, still, what will it be like for him if he has to start secondary school not having had the operation?

This condition will surely only get worse.

No, we should be looking to our MPs - the two Helens - for them to do something about this and use their influence wisely.

Ethan needs an operation and I, for one, think it would be money well spent.