BRITISH WOMAN DEEMED TOO FAT FOR OPERATION, GOES ABROAD AND PAYS

CHANNEL 4/UK: Woman 'too fat' for op goes abroad

A British woman branded too fat for surgery on the NHS has undergone a second hip replacement operation in Malta.

Frances Kinley-Manton needed the operation due to arthritis pain in her hips, which kept her in a wheelchair for two years.

But NHS doctors told the 15-stone woman she would have to lose about two stone before she could be considered for surgery.

Mrs Kinley-Manton, from Palnackie near Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, was not able to lose weight through dieting and was forced to travel abroad for treatment. She took out a mortgage on her house to pay around £7,000 for a private left-hip replacement operation at a hospital in Malta in July.

She has now gone under the knife again at St James Hospital in Sliema on Malta to have the other hip replaced.

She said: "I had no alternative. NHS said they wouldn't operate on me because I'm overweight, but I think they were just trying to keep their costs down. They wouldn't even put me on a waiting list. It goes against my principles to have come to Malta, but I didn't think the surgery was ever going to happen in the UK."

The first operation was a success and she was walking more and less dependent on her wheelchair. The treatment made such a difference that she decided to go ahead with an operation to replace her right hip, which was also painful.

• IN A WHEELCHAIR.
• IN PAIN FOR TWO YEARS.
• BUT TOO FAT TO OPERATE ON.
• AHHHH: THE BEAUTY OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!

OF COURSE THEY GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SAVE MONEY.

• AND ANOTHER THING: WHEN THEY DENY PROCEDURES AND LET PATIENTS DIE, THEY REAP A DOUBLE SAVINGS: THEY SAVE ON THE HEALTHCARE, AND ON THE PENSION BENEFITS.

• ALL THIS IS WHY NOBODY SHOULD EVER WANT A NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

• IF IT DOESN'T WORK THERE, IT WILL NOT WORK HERE.

DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE DEMS.