Victims of the Manchester Arena attack are calling for changes to mental health services, five years after the massacre.
Victims say people can too easily slip through the cracks and not get the support they need
Leading the charge is Dr Stuart Murray, whose stepson Martyn Hett was among the 22 people killed by suicide bomber Salman Abedi at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme ahead of the five-year anniversary of the attack, Dr Murray recalled the trauma of the weeks following his stepson’s death.A shrapnel-laden homemade suicide bomb was set off as people were leaving the Ariana Grande concert The GP said: ‘Our early experience was – there was a moment in the car when I was shouting and screaming and saying “how ridiculous this is that I’m having to pay privately to get the help for family members”.
‘What it means is that people aren’t getting timely treatment that they should do, and that they’re suffering for weeks and months – sometimes years – before they can get the help they need.
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