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'Is my sister's life not worth it?' Scots families of disabled care home residents demand end to 'discrimination' over vaccine programme

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Covid vaccination programme.Furious relatives want to know why residents in care homes for the elderly with learning disabilities are being treated differently from those in regular care homes.In care homes for the elderly all residents, regardless of age, are being vaccinated and 95 per cent of them have already received the jab.But in at least one care home for the elderly learning disabled the residents will only receive their jabs in line with the community vaccination programme.A relative of a resident in Glasgow’s Esmond Street Support Service said: “My sister is fit and healthy apart from being 80 and being learning disabled.“The staff have done an amazing job in keeping the virus out and the staff have all been vaccinated.“But.

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