A mother has revealed how she is forced to see her 18-year-old daughter die who is unable to receive her treatment amid coronavirus outbreak.
Caroline Toombes’s daughter Evie suffers from a rare form of spina bifida.
Caroline, from Skegness, Lincolnshire, says her daughter is put on a hold amid coronavirus crisis and is unable to receive her treatment.
In a heartbreaking message on Facebook, the mother revealed that her daughter is starving as she can not go in for intravenous feeding amid coronavirus crisis.
She wrote: ‘But she can’t have intravenous feeding at home because no UK care companies have been signed off to do it. So I’ve got to sit here and watch her decline.’
Due to her rare condition, Evie can eat small amounts of soft oral food and a very limited amount of feed via a nasal tube into her jejunum but she is unable to get intravenous feeding amid coronavirus pandemic.
Caroline told that her surgery has been postponed due to Covid-19 and she is forced to see her daughter die as she is starving at home.
She told the Horse and Hound: “Her surgery has been postponed due to Covid-19 but unfortunately her weight is now so low we are unsure if she can survive at home much longer.”
She said she wants to save her daughter and is begging NHS for care who has put her treatment on hold due to coronavirus.
The mother hopes and prays that they have enough time to save her as her daughter’s condition is getting worse day by day.
Caroline criticized Health Secretary Matt Hancock who said NHS can treat everyone amid coronavirus crisis. She said her daughter is starving at home and she has been refused care.
She said: “Why is Health Secretary Matt Hancock stating that the NHS ”has got the capacity to offer the very best of care to everyone”, yet chronically ill patients are starving to death at home after suddenly being discharged in March with no access to intravenous nutrition?”
Evie’s ileostomy stoma surgery has been postponed which was due to take place on March 31 and the family is unsure if she can survive at home.
A petition has been filed on Change.org to raise awareness about Evie’s condition and people like her.
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