A war veteran who lost a leg in Afghanistan has turned to the public to help raise £7,000 for a brain scan. Patrick Gallagher, 36, believes he developed a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after being blown up in Helmand province in 2009.
The former Irish Guardsman was diagnosed with PTSD – which has similar symptoms to a TBI – but he cannot get a brain scan on the NHS to confirm his condition because he was never formally diagnosed with a brain injury.
Patrick, known as Paddy, is now crowdfunding to help pay for his diagnosis at one of only two hospitals in the UK equipped with a MEG scanner, which can identify a TBI.
The MoD maintains that his condition has nothing to do with his war wounds and that he has PTSD, not a brain injury. What is
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