A apprehensive son has begged NHS Lanarkshire to assist his dad who has been ready on surgical procedure for a yr.
David Wilson, 84, broke his humerus, the higher arm bone, final Might and a process scheduled at College Hospital Wishaw has been postponed on a number of events.
Every delay has left David with persistent ache and confined to a recliner chair at his dwelling in Shotts. His son Alastair is now determined for the surgical procedure to be finished as rapidly as doable.
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Nevertheless, the backlog brought on by the pandemic has left David with no date for the op.
Alastair stated: “All now we have been informed is that it's an indefinite date, they will’t inform me when it's going to occur.
“I've contacted MSPs and so they have tried their finest however we appear to be hitting a brick wall.
“He was within the hospital with an an infection and I believed that will be best for him to have the operation however the workers at Wishaw couldn’t get him a mattress within the surgical ward.
“I've even requested if dad might get the operation in one other hospital.
“I’d be keen to journey to any a part of the UK however that doesn’t appear to be a goer both.”
Alastair’s plea comes as NHS Lanarkshire revealed that it's not on the highest degree of danger.
Following a danger evaluation, senior leaders on the well being board lowered the extent of danger from black to pink.
The well being board had been on the highest degree of danger since October final yr.
Alastair added: “It’s actually tough seeing dad on this state.
“He has barely been out the home this previous yr.
“I would really like a bit extra transparency. I hold getting informed we don’t have a date however they don’t clarify what different choices we'd have.
“I’m getting determined now. It simply appears to me he's getting left excessive and dry.”
Judith Park, NHS Lanarkshire director of acute providers, stated: “We admire it may be extraordinarily upsetting for sufferers who're ready for therapy.
“Whereas now we have decreased the general degree of danger from black to pink, security measures stay in place to guard our sufferers and workers which forestall providers from working the way in which they did earlier than Covid-19.
As providers restart, sufferers are being scheduled for surgical procedure based mostly on scientific precedence.
“We have now been in common contact with Mr Wilson and his son and a scientific evaluate of Mr Wilson was carried out by a guide surgeon earlier this yr.
“Nevertheless, at current, we're unable to offer a definitive timeline of when the surgical procedure will happen.
“We'll verify with them instantly after we are able to take action.”
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