{"id":15561,"date":"2019-04-30T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2019-04-30T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:38:57","slug":"nhs-not-down-with-downs-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/04\/30\/nhs-not-down-with-downs-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Not Down With Down’s Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

     We are, unfortunately, familiar with the U.K.’s National Health Servie (NHS) and their “Liverpool Care Pathway” that involves intentionally starving\/dehydrating patients, including babies, to death. Sadly, it seems starvation in the NHS is far more endemic than that: A man with Down’s syndrome died from starvation\/neglect<\/a> in a NHS hospital.<\/p>\n

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“His family \u2013 Ria, and brothers Peter and Gio, a respected documentary film maker – were told he needed surgery and as he had difficulty swallowing, with his neck fracture, he was made ‘nil by mouth’.<\/p>\n

“Ria added: ‘I visited Joe in hospital and he wasn\u2019t happy at all. He hated being in there. But I just thought it was a fall and that he\u2019d soon be home again.<\/p>\n

“\u2026<\/p>\n

“‘When I left, he held my hands and he wouldn\u2019t let go. Looking back, it was as if he knew.’<\/p>\n

“Two weeks on, doctors told Ria that Joe was dying.<\/p>\n

“She said: ‘I held him in my arms and I said goodbye as he took his last breath. My heart was breaking. He had lost so much weight. He was a shadow of himself.’<\/p>\n

“He died on March 20, 2016, while medics were still debating how best to feed him.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Death,<\/p>\n

     But… it’s “free”, amirite?<\/p>\n

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