The Manitoba government has promised funding worth $500,000 that will be injected into the clinical trials of the liberation treatment for multiple sclerosis that has remained a contentious issue.

On Friday, speaking at the Manitoba legislature, Health Minister Theresa Oswald declared that the funds will be applied to evaluate the effectiveness of liberation therapy for MS patients and if the results come out to be positive, it will be employed for narrow-vein condition known as chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI).

Oswald said, "When this research comes forward and it says it's appropriate, safe and ethical to go forward, we don't want to dilly-dally. We want the cash on the table so we can go".

Earlier, Saskatchewan Health Minister Don McMorris also stated that it would finance the clinical trials for liberation therapy, if they found certain evidences. On the other hand, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research expressed that there was not enough proofs to back pan-Canadian clinical trials.

Paolo Zamboni, an Italian doctor is the brain child of liberation treatment. The therapy involves a balloon angioplasty process that can relive MS patients of their symptoms.

A Winnipeg MS patient Jo-Anne Findlay was delighted to know that the region was making some efforts to battle with CCSVI. He added that it would prove good for many.

Manitoba is also raising its annual monetary assistance for an MS clinic at Health Sciences Centre by more than $500,000.