Coronavirus discrimination: surgery asks chronically sick and disabled patients to refuse treatment
People with serious health conditions and disabilities who are registered with a GP surgery in Wales had a nasty surprise in the post.
The surgery sent them a letter saying if they caught the coronavirus, the best thing for them to do would be to reject treatment and wait for death – and it asked them to sign a form confirming it.
Llynfi Surgery, in Llynfi Road, Maesteg, sent the letter to patients with serious health conditions such as incurable cancer, motor neurone disease, and untreatable heart and lung conditions, on March 27.
It comes as further confirmation that people with disabilities will suffer adverse discrimination in the coronavirus crisis – that government guidance is to abandon them.
The letter states that people with these conditions are “unlikely to be offered hospital admission” if they become unwell with coronavirus and “certainly will not be offered a ventilator bed”.
It continued: “We would therefore like to complete a DNACPR form for you which we can share with the OOH [out of hours] GP services and which will mean that in the event of a sudden deterioration in your condition because of a Covid-19 infection or disease progression the emergency services will not be called and resuscitation attempts to restart your heart or breathing will not be attempted.”
Going on, it suggested that the “best option” for patients is to stay at home to be cared for by their family with “ongoing support from ourselves and community nursing services”.
It listed “benefits” to signing the DNACPR form:
- “Your GP and more importantly your friends and family will know not to call 999”;
- “Scarce ambulance resources can be targeted to the young and fit who have chance of surviving the infection”, and;
- “The risk of transmitting the virus to friends, family and emergency responders from CPR (even chest compression alone) is very high. By having a DNACPR form in place you protect your family and emergency responders from this additional risk”.
The final line reads: “We will not abandon you but we need to be frank and realistic about what the next few months holds for all of us.”
Wales Online reported on this scandalous correspondence, saying that the local health board had contacted patients who were upset by the letter, to apologise and “answer any concerns”.
And both the Welsh Assembly member and MP have issued a joint statement saying this was “not a standard letter” and the board is working with the surgery “to offer compassionate and sound advice in the very best traditions of our health service”.
You’ll notice that there isn’t a single line in these comments that contradicts the suggestions in the letter.
If anything, it seems the authorities have simply been embarrassed that it has stated the facts about government guidance on long-term sick and disabled patients who contract the coronavirus in a blunt way.
The affair seems to be confirmation that the government is indeed using the coronavirus to cull “useless eaters”, in line with the eugenics beliefs of Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, and the Nazi-style persecution of people with long-term health issues that has been carried out by successive Conservative governments over the last decade.
Source: Surgery asks sickest patients to sign ‘do not attempt CPR’ form if they get Covid-19 – Wales Online
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Unbelievable, This is cruel and heartless to say the least
I always thought all medical practitioners was governed by ‘do no harm’ How are we meant to listen or trust any Doctor again?
This government has been killing people since they got elected so it’s nothing new. Carry on with the program
At first I thought this had to be a sick April fool; till I saw the date on the letter. It’s only going to get worse, now that the incompetents at Westminster have decided they will control all testing kits for the devolved parliaments.
Really? Have you got a link for this?
It’s not nice is it your father your mother your gran being told you can’t get but please take this pill it put you to sleep aktion T4 rolling along with out much of a ado
Dear God…That it’s boiled down to THIS?
I’m ashamed to be human, nevermind reasonably healthy.
‘And both the Welsh Assembly member and MP have issued a joint statement saying this was “not a standard letter” and the board is working with the surgery “to offer compassionate and sound advice in the very best traditions of our health service”.
You’ll notice that there isn’t a single line in these comments that contradicts the suggestions in the letter.’
Of course the Welsh Assembly member and MP won’t refute these fascist demands because they are acting on orders from the fascist tory government! What utter hypocrisy!! ‘best traditions of our health service?’ Oh this means ‘we fascist tories will ensure only certain groups of women and men will be deemed ‘fit’ to receive medical care because you other disposable non-humans can die now!
Why not just tattoo a Star or DNRoR (Do Not Resuscitate Or Respirate) whilst the patient tests negative for Covid?
I’ve already been abandoned now just like when the UK Government left me to die in South Africa years ago – it comes as no surprise.
What seems to have been overlooked is the fact that those of us with severe respiratory conditions avoid being infected on a daily basis and are no stranger to self-isolation, so they won’t get us that easily…..
“This is a very difficult letter for the practice to write to you”
Horrified and disgusted.