A health-care worker in Merritt, B.C., is raising concerns over a policy that she says discriminates against some elderly wheelchair users in long-term care in the province. Lindsay Fehr, a rehabilitation assistant who works in a long-term care facility, says the current B.C. basic wheelchair benefit only covers a standard wheelchair, which excludes a number of people who do not fit that criteria. Mackenzie, too, wrote a letter saying she would speak to representatives from the Ministry of Health about the policy. Fehr says a lack of response from the ministry spurred her to then file the human rights complaint.

Source: CBC News September 29, 2020 02:48 UTC