The first terminally ill Australian has been granted access to receive life ending euthanasia drugs under Victoria’s landmark euthanasia laws.
No details on the age or illness of the patient is available under the strict wording of the law which also ensures patients must have six months to live or 12 months for those possessing a neurodegenerative disease.
However, with the program in its infancy there are fears there are not enough qualified doctors and that the scheme may be hard to access with its conservative guidelines.