In July this year the parents of a severely disabled teenager told Checkpoint they've been waiting seven years for a fully accessible state home, while their son suffers in cramped conditions and without dignity. Nineteen-year-old Hami has spastic quadriplegia. He cannot toilet or feed himself, struggles to speak, and is blind.
He needs to use a large wheelchair, and to get into bed or the bath he needs a hoist.
But he and his family were living for years in an old-style state house with no room for a hoist, and narrow hallways that his chair could barely fit through.
After sharing their story, the Ministry of Social Development looked at their case, and they finally have a new home, where Hami can be comfortable and his family can care well for him.
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