Stroke survivors often need rehabilitation
exercises after leaving hospital. In England many stroke survivors tell they
feel abandoned after they got home from the hospital and feel they did not get
the right care they needed. At the hospital patients receive the best medical
care and over the years emergency hospital services have improved. Nowadays many
people survive a strike, but a lot of them live with moderate or severe disabilities
afterwards and are sent home without medical care.
Phil Gray, chief executive of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy agreed
that there is a major problem in post hospital care and that the lack of
investments has led to the absence of services all over the UK.
It is unbelievable that the medical
staff is allowed to send someone home without any form of evaluation or post
medical care. It is like they are saying: We did our job, you are still alive,
you did not die so grab your stuff and please make room for the next patient in
line. If you had a stroke some brain functions have ceased to function and you
will have to learn all sorts of body movements all over again. You need not be
a specialist to see that help is necessary to recover.
(photograph: Alamy)
(photograph: Alamy)
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