A security group said patients with learning disabilities who had contracted the coronavirus were given unnecessary “no resuscitation” orders in the UK.
Mencap, a security group that aims to help those with learning disabilities, said they have received several reports from coronavirus patients with learning disabilities who have been told they will not be resuscitated if their health deteriorates. , according to a report in The Guardian.
“During the pandemic, many people with learning disabilities faced shocking discrimination and barriers to accessing healthcare, with inadequate notifications. Do not try cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) in their files and reductions in social assistance. Edel Harris, executive director of Mencap, told The Guardian.
Orders not to resuscitate may have cost lives during the pandemic last year, according to him The Care Quality Commission, a UK health regulator, said.
According to the news source, it is not immediately clear why these orders were placed on people with learning disabilities. Non-resuscitation orders are usually given to people who cannot resist CPR.
New evidence also suggests that people with learning disabilities are more likely to have serious negative health consequences for the virus, according to The Guardian.
The UK is blocked again as the country continues to fight the new, more infectious variant of the coronavirus in the UK.
In the first five weeks of the current blockade, the UK-funded National Health Service found that 65 per cent of COVID-19 deaths were related to those with disabilities, the Guardian reported.
And, despite evidence of disproportionate effects, it has been debated in the country whether those with learning disabilities should be a priority to receive vaccinations.
“It is unacceptable that in a group of people so badly affected by the pandemic and that even before Covid died on average 20 years younger than the general population, many are left scared and wonder why they were left out. Said Harris.
Hill contacted Mencap for comments.