ICYMI: A Glace Bay senior hasn't been able to go farther than the front deck of his house since October 2022.
| Posted: Feb. 9, 2023, 6:04 p.m. | Updated: Feb. 9, 2023, 6:04 p.m. | 8 Min Read
"I'm at the point that I believe that anyone who gets into politics gets into politics for one thing and one thing only. Themselves, their friends second and then people like you and me last — if there is anything left," he said, admitting he's frustrated by the situation. Needing to use a motorized wheelchair for mobility, a social worker in Halifax helped Hurley fill out a provincial grant application for the costs of a wheelchair ramp to be put on his home. Hurley said it was completed and submitted in August 2021.
Hurley said he was contacted by someone in the housing department regarding the ramp grant who told him he needed to provide them with a letter indicating when he would be released from hospital. Hurley said the department told them they needed a new bid from the contractor as so much time had passed. The contractor told Hurley's friend the original quote would be honoured, however, Hurley was informed by the department that a new quote in writing needed to be submitted.
They arranged for ambulance transport the following week and the use of a portable ramp from a local pharmacy. Hurley was home the week before Halloween and hasn't been able to leave since. "Then she said there might not be enough money in the budget to do your ramp this year," he said."I asked her, 'what do you want me to do if there's a fire? Go out on the deck until someone rescues me or do you want me to back it up to the back railing and push the joystick on this to go as fast as I can and do an Evel Knievel.'"
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