#ATOS order kidney dialysis patient back to work - HE’s had 33 years of renal treatment, four failed transplants and 14 heart attacks. But now, in a shameful indictment of Conservatives welfare cuts, Paul Mickleburgh, 53, has been deemed fit to work. The dad of three, who was diagnosed with renal failure when he was 19, was forced to give up his job as a technician 20 years ago after his body rejected a fourth donor kidney. He is now so ill doctors have taken him off the transplant list as he would not survive a fifth operation and will spend the rest of his life on dialysis. The machine, which cleans his blood, is now the only thing keeping him alive. But after more than three decades hooked up to it for five hours, three days a week, other organs, including his heart, are also failing. Paul, from Aberdeen, who has also battled #cancer, #pneumonia, 14 heart attacks in the last five years and suffers from spontaneous internal bleeding and brittle bones, has been placed in a “work-related activity group” #wrag. This requires him to attend “work-focused interviews” and actively look for employment or his incapacity benefits will be cut. Paul said: “How ill do I need to be? Apart from being dead, I don’t know how I can get much worse. It makes me so angry. “I was asked to tell them all my illnesses and when I had finished it was a page and a half. “I enclosed all my medical history, medication, dialysis times and what it does to me after being on it for 33 years. “But to my shock I have been passed fit for work and must attend work focus interviews and do everything possible to find work or lose my benefits. “I’d liken this to what the #Nazis did, working the disabled and the sick until they dropped dead and were no longer a burden.” Paul, who has a mechanical valve fitted in his heart, a twisted bowel and suffers agonising joint pain as a result of prolonged renal treatment, has now written to his MP, Malcolm Bruce.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 09:54:27 +0000
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