Disabled People With Covid-19 Face A Tangled Web Of Obstacles … One family has struggled to get their Covid-positive loved one to dialysis.
For the past two weeks, Barbara Tom has been at her wit’s end. She was worried on Aug. 11 when her 73-year-old brother went to the emergency room at The Queen’s Medical Center in West Oahu and tested positive for Covid, even though he’d been vaccinated.
She was even more concerned when he was discharged that day back to his adult foster care home, and a few days later when his caregivers there tested positive for the virus as well.
But her biggest frustration has been the difficulty in finding her brother, Paul Mikami, a ride to and from his dialysis treatments. The blood filtering treatment must be performed three times per week to ensure his kidneys function properly, but he has had to miss some appointments because he couldn’t take the Handi-Van while Covid positive.
