'Urgent request'- Disabled girl (3) waiting a huge amount of time for a new buggy
A young disabled girl named Kayla received a buggy last year but it was faulty....she is still waiting for a replacement 17 months later
A disabled three year old girl has been waiting over 17 months for a replacement buggy after the one she was provided with was faulty.
The child's mother was on Newstalk's Lunchtime Live to plea for help for her daughter Kayla and for disabled children across the country.
The little girl Kayla turned three years old in June and spent seven months in hospital shortly after she was born.
Her mother Stacy has expressed her huge frustration by the health service’s treatment of disabled children, as her own daughter is waiting well over a year for a buggy that isn't faulty.
Stacy told Newstalk that she pays out of pocket for her disabled daughter's physical therapy but she cannot afford the suitable equipment which "costs thousands and thousands".
“I can’t fund everything," she said.
“We see everything that’s going on with school places - there’s no school places, the spinal surgeries and people on waiting lists,” she told Lunchtime Live.
“What a lot of people don’t realise is there’s people waiting to even get on those waiting lists, so those numbers don’t even reflect that.
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“There’s no interventions, there’s no therapies.”
Top of the list for Stacy and her daughter Kayla is a replacement buggy for disabled children that will keep Kayla safe and supported.
The family got one last year, but it is faulty, Newstalk said.
“The day it arrived I noticed something wasn’t right and I contacted the team and we’ve had five engineers out to the house,” Stacey said.
The family is still waiting for a replacement 17 months on.
“There’s a new buggy in the country and it’s been in the country seven weeks now,” she said.
“I even offered to drive to Dublin to collect it myself but no, we need to wait for the engineers to bring it down.
“They have to get a proper appointment and the physio has to be there, they all have to be available.
“This is an urgent request.”
The HSE told Newstalk in a statement that they “will be speaking to the family concerned”.