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Disability rights campaigners condemn Do-Not-Resuscitate orders on people with learning difficulties
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Disabled people made up majority of Covid-19 deaths last year, official figures reveal
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THE government was slammed for failing a young mother with severe mental illness after an inquest revealed that she took an overdose when the removal of disability benefits left her destitute.
Philippa Day was trapped in a months-long state of high anxiety and haunted by suicidal thoughts after she lost her benefits while suffering from agoraphobia and was unable to attend a face-to-face assessment, coroner Gordon Clow said on Wednesday.
Her long struggle with the benefits system had been a “stressor” in her decision to take the overdose in August 2019, Mr Clow said.
Ms Day was found unconscious at her home by her sister and father, with a letter from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by her side and notes left on her computer that said that her dealings with the government department left her feeling “trapped and isolated from the world.”
DISABLED people have been hit exceptionally hard by the Covid-19 crisis, including through “starkly disproportionate deaths,” a report by MPs revealed today.
The Commons women and equalities committee called for an independent inquiry into the particular difficulties that disabled people face in accessing services during the pandemic.
The panel of MPs said: “Disabled people have suffered a range of profoundly adverse effects from the pandemic, including starkly disproportionate deaths.
“Potentially discriminatory critical-care guidelines and doctors’ blanket use of do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR) notices caused disabled people great distress and anxiety, leaving them feeling that their lives were less valued than others.
Posted on 13th December 2020 // Britain / Women // 0 Comments
We face a crisis in social care intensified by COVID-19, but,
Ian Parker argues, protest movements and radical organisations are coming together to mobilise for change.
The struggle for social care means working across the multiple contradictions in ‘care’ – how we care for each other now and how we build alternatives – and overcoming the ways these contradictions are stretched out in this wretched society to divide us from each other. Those that urgently need care are being reduced to zero, to nothing, treated as expendable; that has been the logic of the brutal ‘herd immunity’ agenda of the Conservative government since it took power.
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