Danish Board of Health threatens to commit seriously ill ME-patient to a psychiatric hospital.
The Danish Board of Health says that the diagnosis of ME is the same as insanity and wants to
forcibly remove a 23-year old woman, Karina, from her family home.
This could happen as soon as May 2nd.
Karina is totally bed-bound, is extremely light and sound sensitive and is too weak to talk.
She is so extremely ill that there is a real chance that a move could be fatal.
Karina's parents have been trying to get permission to set up an IV at home to help keep Karina alive, but instead the health department decided that Karina is mentally ill and should be removed.
The family has been repeatedly told by Danish doctors that the diagnosis of ME is not recognized.
"They do not understand how sick an ME-patient can be with this disease and their ignorance can now have fatal consequences for Karina" says Rebecca Hansen, Chairman of the ME Association in Denmark.
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Rebecca Hansen can be contacted at:
icerebel62@hotmail.com
ME IS REGISTERED AS NEUROLIGICAL BY WHO WORLD WIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY AND IS NOT LISTED AS MENTAL HEALTH
PLEASE SEE http://www.sophiaandme.org.uk/ FOR DETAILS OF ENGLISH ME PATIENT SECTIONED FOR HAVING ME WHICH LED TO HER DEATH
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I hope for a different solution.
ReplyDeleteDear Rebecca
ReplyDeleteI have just read about Karina's awful plight on facebook site I am a member of Edmesh Edinburgh M.E support group. I am truly shocked by the situation that Karina is in, & I send my heartfelt wishes for a reversal of this terrible decision. Can't the Danish Prime Minister be told of Karina's case, this must be illegal, going against what the world medical council quite clearly state as a physical illness, not a mental one. I hope that something can be done to prevent these ignorant doctors from being allowed to do this, it is truly barbaric, and am aware of the terrible consequences in Sophia's case. My prayers are with all who are trying to fight this, my love to the family