COVID, Scotland: Do NOT resuscitate DISABLED people!
… felt like their lives were ‘not worth saving’
… after Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders were secretly imposed
… GP receptionists even called up those with disabilities to try to persuade them to sign up to the orders
… which inform doctors that they do not want their lives saved in an emergency
… some … were left so isolated during lockdowns they feared their bodies would not be discovered if they died at home
… Lord Brailsford’s inquiry in Edinburgh is specifically probing the use of DNRs
… ‘Some people … discovered it while they were in hospital’
… ‘people were absolutely terrified and felt that the lives of disabled people were being devalued’
… ‘people being told they wouldn’t be taken to hospital if they got Covid’
… ‘they wouldn’t be given access to ventilators’
… The inquiry heard how some disabled people were coerced into having a DNR on their medical record
… ‘People thought if they caught it they would just die’
… The inquiry continues
