Wow, well where do I begin?
Since I started this website the campaign has really taken off. I was interviewed for the Evening News, hitting the front page yesterday. I also saw I hit page 22 of the Eastern Daily Press today and we have over 220 signatures! Great work everyone!
First off, I would like to thank Jon Welch for his piece. I thought it was fair, balanced, honest and covered all the points that I wanted to make. However, I felt it missed one crucial point....
The Norfolk Eating Disorders service needs just £60,000 to continue to save lives. £60,000. That is not much in the grand scheme of things.....
It costs £90,000 to adapt just ONE ambulance to be able to take a morbidly obese person to hospital.
It costs £300,000 to build ONE home for a morbidly obese person to live comfortably with adapted ramps, rails, wide doors, big beds
It costs £8,000 for ONE stomach stapling operation on the NHS
1 NHS bed for a 40st person costs over £1000.
Please, don't let the EDA close. Why should anorexics suffer when all of the above prove that others with eating disorders get special treatment
Liam x
It is important to remember that the Norfolk Eating Disorder’s criteria cater for not only those who suffer with anorexia but also bulimia, binge eaters and compulsive eaters whether they are male or female. I therefore feel it is irrelevant how much the NHS spends to facilitate obese people as their needs are as important as those who are anorexic. We could then start to question whether suicidal attempts, those who are alcoholics or drug addicts should be entitled to proper treatment. When we talk about eating disorders we automatically associate it with people who don’t eat or are severely underweight and are female; of course this is far from the truth as eating disorders are such a complex illness which comes in all shapes and forms, male or female. The Norfolk Eating Disorders Association is the only available service in Norfolk who offers help and support to all manners of eating disorders and they do a fantastic job in doing so.
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