The family of Charleigh Pollock, a terminally ill ten-year-old from Langford, has turned to crowdfunding after the province cut off her life-extending medication—a decision that continues to haunt the BC NDP government.

Charleigh’s family had already raised around $70,000 after the government decided last month to stop funding Brineura, the only drug that appears to slow her Batten Disease.

On Monday, they launched a new GoFundMe dedicated just to covering the cost of the drug going forward, which is around $65,000 a month.

“Without this medication, needing to be administered every two weeks, her condition will rapidly deteriorate,” her mother Jori Fales wrote on the site.

“This decision has left the Fales-Pollock family in an unimaginable position, forced to find alternative means to fund Charleigh’s ongoing treatments.

“Leading........

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