A very kind Simone Manduca left a message on our website’s contact form suggesting we open a Facebook page for ME sufferers in Malta.

Two members of our support group, Rosanne Caruana and Nicola Reiss, have taken the initiative and recently set up a Facebook page for people with ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), which should be a great extension to our website with regard to raising ME awareness in Malta and abroad, providing information on ME research and offering support to others who suffer from this dreadful disease, their families and friends. Since people with ME are often housebound and unable to go out and socialize, we hope this page will target the loneliness and sense of loss many have to endure.

The ME Sufferers Malta Facebook page is a ‘closed’ group – to avoid, as Nicky explains, “unscrupulous people who use these groups for advertising junk cures”; but we wish to welcome all to join.

We also wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Maria Blackburn on setting up the Multiple Sclerosis Malta Facebook group in the hope of raising more awareness on MS. We can easily empathise with her daily battle and the ordeal of living with a debilitating illness that is seriously unrecognised and misunderstood.

Rebecca Sultana

ME Sufferers Malta

www.mesufferersmalta.org