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People with mental illness and learning disabilities given ‘do not resuscitate’ orders during pandemic
Telegraph investigation finds medics decided that patients with these conditions should not be saved if their heart stopped
9 June 2021 • 10:10pm
Dulceta and Sally-Rose Cyrille, holding a picture of daughter and sister Sonia Deleon, who had a DNAR order placed on her during the pandemic
Credit: Paul Grover
Patients with mental illness and learning disabilities were given “do not resuscitate” orders during the pandemic, The Telegraph can disclose.
Families, carers and doctors have said that medics decided that patients with these conditions should not be resuscitated if their heart stopped – a decision which in one case appears to have led to the patient’s death.