Some Albertans are being denied access to an innovative treatment for multiple sclerosis. MS patients and their kith and kin staged a protest outside the Foothills Hospital, this Friday, which is demanding the province pay to test and treat CCSVI. CCSVI is a narrowing of the veins which obstructs blood flow from the brain.

Italian Dr. Paolo Zamboni conducted a research and found that a bulk of MS sufferers he has treated have the narrowing of the veins. A procedure is used in which a balloon is used to open blocked veins and improve the blood flow.

The patients treated with the procedure were better. The research is exciting, but there is more research that is needed into the same.

Alberta Government also opined the same and this is the only reason for it not funding the diagnosis or treatment of CCSVI. Protestors shared that Government is dragging its feet, while the health of a lot of patients is deteriorating.

Gene Zwozdesky, Alberta's Health Minister said, "We have to establish more clearly, what is the linkage between the condition and the chronic ailment".