02/21/2021 at 8:54 AM Posted by Kevin Edward White
CNA Staff, February 14, 2021 A Catholic doctor called on Sunday for an independent inquiry into reports that COVID-19 patients with learning disabilities have been given “do not resuscitate” notices during the second wave of the virus in the U.K.
Fr. Patrick Pullicino, a neurologist who was ordained in 2019, spoke out after the Guardian newspaper reported on Feb. 13 that people with learning disabilities were given the notices despite an outcry over the practice last year that prompted an urgent investigation.
“This wholesale attack first on the elderly and now on the disabled demands a full independent inquiry,” Pullicino told CNA on Feb. 14.
A council’s “significant delay” in making a standard Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) authorisation has revealed its unusually high backlog of DoLS cases, with some dating back to 2014
Lord Wolfson said it was not for the Government to give its blessing to schemes
Parents currently face the prospect of going to court to access savings
Trust fund providers greenlit an alternative route last week
The Government has refused to confirm whether it complies with legislation aimed at protecting disabled children from financial abuse
Former PM Gordon Brown has called on the Government to change the law
Turin, Italy, Dec 6, 2019 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- In Turin, Italy, the Daughters of Jesus the King is a religious community of blind and visually impaired sisters who aim for holiness, and to be a sign that in Christ, there are no barriers that cannot be overcome.
Sister Lorena Logrono, superior of the Daughters of Jesus the King, told ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, that the origin of the congregation traces back to the Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan, which was founded by Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo 135 years ago.
“When Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo became ill, he left the Congregation of the Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan in the hands of his brother Luigi, who was also appointed head of the institutes for blind girls in Turin,” she explained.
The parents of as many as four in five disabled children currently unable to access their Child Trust Fund savings may no longer have to go to court to get access to the money.