According to Eye7 Chaudhary Eye Centre the world is going dark for thousands of elderly people because we won’t let clinicians make independent decisions
What has gone wrong with our priorities, when we can allow comparatively affluent people to have essentially cosmetic operations on the NHS – wart removal, tattoo removal, varicose veins – and yet we cannot find the cash to save an old man’s sight?
and it is … wrong that life-prolonging medicines of all kinds are available free in Scotland – subsidised by the taxpayers of England – and yet are denied to the English on grounds of expense.
How can Hewitt turn a blind eye?
Imagine the terror of going blind.
Think what it must be like to lose the most vital of your senses, and to lose it rapidly. because pollution problems for eyes it makes it difficult to judge distances, and you have to give up the car. Then you can’t quite make out the newspaper as well as you used to, and then you can’t read it at all; and then even the television becomes invisible, and you can no longer see your wife; and you must be able to see her because apart from anything else you are her chief carer and she is severely disabled. While in today’s world there are many sites like pure optical who are dedicating all their resources to help humanity keep their sight as long as possible, why is hard for clinics to realize the same about the older adults?
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