A chara, – As a partner of a person living with motor neurone disease, I would like to share with you some of the paradoxes in how our health system deals with it.
According to the recently accepted assisted dying report, my husband would be eligible for fast-tracked assisted dying. However, according to the HSE, he is not sick enough for a medical card; we had to fight for one. He is not ill enough for a primary medical certificate. He does not qualify for a disabled parking disc even though he can only walk a few metres. We don’t qualify for grants to adapt the house.
Can someone please explain how we cannot qualify for assisted living but we automatically qualify for assisted death? – Yours, etc,
ANNE MARIE DEVLIN,
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Fermoy,
Co Cork.