The drug costs more than 600 million guilders and the Austrian state has decided to take over the treatment entirely from the parents.

Children with SMA in Austria can get the world’s most expensive medicine for free after the state has decided to take over the price of drug therapy, which costs more than 600 million guilders (1.8 million euros) writes Orst, citing ORF public media. and telex.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which often causes severe mobility problems and often death, is reported to affect an average of one in ten thousand babies; in Austria, ten babies may need it each year.

Zolgensma became known in Hungary for the story of Zente, a 22-month-old Hungarian boy with a SMA patient, for whose treatment an unprecedented collaboration was launched.

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