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Bed-bound disabled woman ‘left lying in urine and faeces all day’ as no care package available while family work

'The only advice her social worker has given is to put her in a home, despite knowing she has trauma from this when she was young'

Craigavon Area Hospital

A physically and mentally disabled woman is left "lying in her own urine and faeces all day” while she waits on a care package promised before Christmas. The local family want to continue to care for their relative, who is bed-bound, but, as both work, they say they have been told to “put her in a home”. Meanwhile, one former local care worker said she had to quit her job as they are crying out for work but “constantly being told we weren’t allowed any...

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