Labour’s NHS deny war-hero medication!
One of our Somerset correspondents can reveal that a World War II bomber pilot, now in his 80’s, stands to lose his power of sight because his local NHS trust claims it doesn’t want to spend £4,000 on a drug that could save him from blindness. This despite the obvious – that failure to treat him will render him blind anyway! Apparently, lack of funds appears to be at the root of their decision.
To put this into some sort of perspective, £4,000 is about what an average Labour MP receives in pay and allowances PER WEEK!
It is also a tiny fraction of what the various Somerset NHS trusts pay out each year in providing treatment and translator services to people, not unlike asylum-seekers and migrant labourers, who haven’t paid a penny into the health service they so freely avail themselves of!
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1 bootroll // Feb 23, 2007 at 11:45 am
This is normal treatment for the elderly.
My late father also gave the best years of his life for this country as a sitting duck for bombs and torpedoes in the Atlantic but was told he would have to go on a waiting list, over 18 months long, before he could have his cataracts treated, by which time he would have been completely blind. He could, however, pay and it would be done almost immediately! So he paid out of his meagre savings.
Incidentally, he was blown up outside Waterloo Station during the war but the government decided that although he was in London on Navy business, because he was not in uniform at the time, he was a civilian and not entitled to any kind of financial aid from the forces.
His autopsy showed that not one but both hips were in a truly shocking state and he would have benefited from their replacement had they been responsibly investigated.
Rule Britannia! God bless the NHS.
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