Chris Stigas suffered a severe spinal cord injury in 2014. He said he's been forced to reuse urine collection bags needed for his catheters — against medical warnings that reusing them can cause infection and other serious health complications.
"It makes me feel like I'm a second-class citizen," Stigas told Go Public. "It's a constant source of anxiety, always having to consider where I'm going to find money to pay [for] my medical supplies." "Just imagine having to negotiate how many times you go to the bathroom based on how many catheters you have. Imagine having a urinary infection where the solution is that you have to drink a lot of water, but having to negotiate how many cups you can have because you don't have enough catheters and you can't afford what you need," he said.Stigas's funding covers about one-quarter of the cost of the catheters he needs, not counting the other related equipment.
Saskatchewan's funding, on the other hand, is considered by advocates to be the gold standard, based solely on the needs of the patient, where the medical supplier bills the government directly and supplies are shipped directly to the patient's door.It's not clear what fully funding these kinds of medical supplies would cost the provinces and territories.
Peter Athanasopoulos is from Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, an advocacy group working to get equal funding for catheters and related supplies no matter where patients live. "Downstream of savings from going to the hospital, reducing infection, improved quality of life, more capability of sustainable gainful employment, the amount of opportunities just by giving people the ability to pee for free is tremendous."
The main thing we need is treatment should release for spinal cord complete injury because accident happened
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Wait until 'free dental care'
I sincerely hope this man gets the financial help.
In Ontario, thanks to fordnation and his gang, many people in this situation ended up evicted and on the streets during pandemic.
Conservatives don’t care, don’t want to help, continue to fight against any and all services that could and would help!! NeverVoteConservative VoteThemOut
Ontario Health sucks. Have type 2 diabetes, used to check blood twice a day, was working & my benefits covered the needles & lancets. I retired & discovered OHIP only allows you 100 needles & test strips a year. So now I test once every 3rd day. Potential issues if not careful.
The government has done nothing to combat the skyrocketing real estate prices that are affecting disabled and young Canadians.Foreigners have inflated pricing do laundry money. Blind bid real estate sales processes are inflating homes as well. Doing nothing speaks volumes
That’s because the government gives so much to cbc. defund cbc
I feel bad for this poor man, as I too need medical supplies and am on odsp. What the article doesn't at all focus on is the ridiculous price of health care supplies.
He should be hounding Doug Ford, publicly. That's his department. It's neglect the conservatives own. Keeping instep with pricing, is their responsibility. Lack of responsible care is what one can always expect to get, from conservative government. Don't vote for them next time.
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