Family of Börje Salming expressed frustration with Swedish health-care system before hockey legend's passing

.MapleLeafs legend Börje Salming has passed away after a truncated battle with amyotrophiclateralsclerosis (ALS). – via healthing_ca ALSCanada

with the Swedish health-care system, citing lack of access to this medication and restricted access to home care.

“The King” Swedish defenceman played 16 seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1973 to 1989, and spent his last season with the Detroit Red Wings. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996. As “While some patients have a family history of ALS and we can identify the causative gene, in most cases there is no family history and we don’t understand why it occurs,” Dr. Lorne Zinman, director of the ALS and Neuromuscular Clinic at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto,The early signs and symptoms of ALS vary from person to person, possibly because different neurons are affected in each case.

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