Strike traps riders at home
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Updated: November 06, 2009 9:20 AM
Editor:
Re: HandyDart strike strands thousands, Oct. 28.
How long will the powers that be allow the HandyDart strike to continue?
As president of the White Rock South Surrey Stroke Recovery Club, I can tell you attendance at our twice-a-week programs for people who have suffered strokes and attend our exercise classes and speech-therapy sessions has dropped by 50 per cent the first week of the strike.
These people are generally older, and most rely entirely on HandyDart to get to treatment centres to help them recover from debilitating conditions that are brought on by a stroke. Continuity of treatment is very important.
Many of our members have told me they have had to cancel medical appointments and physiotherapy treatments because of the strike. Not only do they help our members with treatments to help them get over the stroke and back to normal living, but it is also a social outing where they can enjoy a coffee and a snack and converse with people who have had the same experience.
Isn’t it time we figured out a way to stop the suffering of our most vulnerable of our citizens, and let them get back to normal living? Being trapped in their homes, with no way of getting out for medical appointments, is totally wrong.
Earl Askwith, White Rock
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