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Investment in research urgently needed to give hope to sufferers of ME/CFS

Greens spokesperson for Health Hon Alison Xamon MLC has renewed her call to the Government to invest urgently in research into causes and possible treatments for ME/CFS.

Ms Xamon said myalgic enecpohalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) was a complex illness that affects most body systems, but particularly the nervous, immune, cardiac, gastrointestinal and endocrine systems.

She said it affected between 0.4 and one per cent of the Australian population.

“In Western Australia, that works out to be between 10,000 and 26,000 people,” Ms Xamon said.

CORRECTIVE SERVICES — PRISONERS 50 YEARS AND OVER

1056. Hon Alison Xamon to the minister representing the Minister for Corrective Services: I refer to the provision of health screening for older prisoners, and I ask:

(a)  how many prisoners 50 years and over, are currently in Western Australian prisons;

(b)  of the prisoners in (a), how many are:

(i)  sentenced; and

(ii)  unsentenced;

(c)  of the prisoners in (b)(i), how many are serving sentences of 12 months or longer;

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