Exhausted Scots mum's disabled son 'living in hospital' for month due to housing crisis

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A desperate mum has told how her disabled son has been stuck in hospital for five weeks despite being ‘fit for discharge’. Renata Dalka from Ayr says her boy Mati Dalka, 17, is now living in Crosshouse Hospital due to an accommodation crisis for suitable housing.

The exhausted parent has been taking her son to an additional support needs school in Ayr everyday before dropping him back at his ward.Housing chiefs are scrambling to find a suitable home for the youngster after his mum’s private let in Victoria Street was deemed unsuitable due to all the bedrooms being upstairs.Renata is now begging the authorities to find a solution to reunite her devastated family.

The shattered mum told Ayrshire Live: “I feel hopeless, our life has been turned upside down over this. “Mati is going to school and then back to the hospital, he lives in a hospital ward with other patients.“I am exhausted.

I take Mati to school everyday and then I really want to bring him home but I have to drive back to the hospital.Mati suffers from epilepsy and Glut 1 Deficiency Syndrome – a rare disorder which starves his brain of vital nutrients and energy leading to daily seizures.He was rushed into hospital in July after seizures spiked from 20 per day to more than 200, with Mati’s fits coming once every 10 minutes.Renata said: “Mati started to have a seizure every 10 minutes, he ended up unconscious, not able to eat or drink.“He was put into ICU in the hospital they feared he had an infection.