11-month-old baby’s treatment canceled, father blames Prime Minister Moe | The Canadian News

Helen is 11 months old, likely has cerebral palsy, and cannot receive the treatment she needs.

“My concern at the moment is what kind of lasting effect this will have,” his father, Graham Dickson, told Global News.

Dickson said doctors told him they couldn’t provide an exact diagnosis yet because they are waiting for more tests, including an MRI in November.

But that was canceled, he said, when the Saskatchewan Health Authority announced on Sept. 23 that it was slowing down and postponing services to redirect resources to the overwhelmed intensive care units treating COVID-19 patients.

Dickson said Helen has a developmental delay. While most 11-month-olds crawl, Helen only grabs her feet.

She also has crossed eyes and her reflections are far behind where they should be, Dickson said. He told Global News that doctors said this likely points to some kind of disconnect between his brain and his motor function. He was due to have an MRI in November.

Dickson said one source of comfort was Helen’s physical therapy treatments, which took place once a month.

But she learned Thursday, during what would be Helen’s last appointment, that the rest of the treatments were postponed indefinitely because the SHA is also reassigning staff from there.

The SHA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Dickson blames Saskatchewan Prime Minister Scott Moe.

He said the government could have prevented the accumulation of COVID-19 cases if it had implemented more public health restrictions earlier.

On Thursday, Moe announced that the province is reorganizing how it responds to the pandemic.

When asked why he was not putting limits on the size of collections, the prime minister said that “we are not going to implement broad-based restrictions on … more than 70 percent (of the population) who consider themselves fully vaccinated. “.

Dickson called that “an absolute fallacy.”

“The people who are being punished for this inaction are the most vulnerable people, like my daughter.”

Global News has reached out to Moe’s office for comment.