markmcgowan

TO MARK MCGOWAN THE CRUEL AND CALLOUS PREMIER OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

The following are copies of my letters sent to members of Parliament, Government of the State of Western Australia:

My letter to all Non Labor Members of Parliament dated 25 September 2018 :

To: All Non Labor Members of Parliament

Complaint Re: Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia.

SUBJECT: The Cruel and Callous Treatment of a blind pensioner by Mark McGowan Premier of Western Australia and the Medical Profession of Western Australia.

I suffer from a rare eye condition and require urgent cataract and glaucoma surgery. It is alleged that the only person in Perth who is capable of carrying out the work for me is a Dr Kai Goh of Murdoch Ophthalmology and it is also alleged that he refuses to do so. I have written to Mark McGowan, the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia whose only solution to the problem is for me to go to a teaching hospital. I have told him on numerous occasions that a teaching hospital would be inappropriate for someone like me suffering from a rare eye condition and difficult eye problems. Yet he still persists with the ridiculous notion that I should go to a teaching hospital. I have told him that a total time of 5 minutes is all that is allocated for a cataract operation at a teaching hospital and that no one could possibly do a cataract operation for me in that time and that I have hard cataracts and no one at the teaching hospital is capable of removing these, but he refuses to listen.

So far I have written to the following Ministers in the McGowan Government: Dave Kelly, Simone McGurk, Peter Tinley, Rita Saffioti, Paul Papalia, Ben Wyatt, Mick Murray, John Quigley, David Templeman, Francis Logan, Alannah MacTiernan, Michelle Roberts, Sue Ellery, Bill Johnston and Stephen Dawson. To date I have not received a reply.

So far I have written to the following backbenchers in the McGowan Government: Yaz Mubarakai, Lisa O'Mally, Stephen Price, Martin Pritchard, Amber Jade Sanderson, Jessica Shaw, Jessica Stojkovski, Dr Sally Talbot, Mattew Swinbourn, Kate Doust, Chris Tallentire, Cassie Rowe, Samantha Rowe, Margaret Quirk, Reece Whitby, Sabine Winton, Lisa Baker, Dr Tony Buti, John Carey, Robyn Clarke, Alanna Clohesy, Adele Farina, Mark Folkard, Janine Freeman, Emily Hamilton, Mattew Hughes, Kyle McGinn, David Michael and Simon Millman. To date I have not received a reply.

It is alleged that by their inaction, the abovementioned individuals and several others are responsible for the state of blindness which I find myself in.

My letter to all Labor Members of Parliament dated 14 September 2018

To : All Labor Members of Parliament

Complaint Re: Mark McGowan Premier of WA.

Subject : The Cruel and Callous Treatment of a Person by Mark McGowan and the Medical Profession of Western Australia

I recently received the following reply from Ben Wyatt, my local member of Parliament:

" As this matter has been thoroughly reviewed, Minister Wyatt encourages you to contact your General Practitioner to obtain a referral to an appropriate service. "

Previously to that, I obtained the following response from Mark McGowan, the Premier of Western Australia:

" I would like to reiterate the advice provided by Minister Cook that treatment for your condition can be either through the public system at the Royal Perth Hospital eye clinic or back to the private specialists who were previously involved in your care. "

Previously to that, I obtained the following response from Roger Cook, the Minister for Health:

" The Department of Health has in place a process of referral to specialists within the public health care system which is available to you through your General Practitioner. "

By this he meant that a General Practitioner could refer me to the Royal Perth Hospital eye clinic.

All these responses have one common theme. They all refer me back to one place, namely the ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL eye clinic,which does not carry out any research work.

What has been overlooked in all of this conversation is the fact that I suffer from a RARE EYE CONDITION.

Why has no one mentioned the LIONS EYE INSTITUTE. You would think that if a person was suffering from a rare eye condition that they would be referred to the Lions Eye Institute instead of a teaching hospital.

The Lions Eye Institute lays claim to the following:

The Lions Eye Institute is an Australian medical research institute affiliated with the University of Western Australia. It is a not for profit centre of excellence that combines an ophthalmic clinic with scientific discovery developing techniques for the prevention of blindness and the reduction of pain from blinding eye conditions.

The Lions Eye Institute employs 170 scientists,clinicians and support staff. It conducts leading research into blindness and runs one of the largest ophthalmic practices in Australia. Its ophthalmology clinic also has an international reputation for providing high quality care, with more than 50,000 patients seen each year. The University of Western Australia Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science incorporates the Lions Eye Institute.

The Lions Eye Institute supports world class scientists from many different disciplines and during its 30 year history, has produced many major scientific publications and technical breakthroughs. The Lions Eye Institute has achieved the highest level 5 in the Federal Government's Excellence in research for Australia ranking. In 2012 it was funded as a Centre of Clinical Research Excellence by the NHMRC for Translation of Genetic Eye Research.

The Lions Eye Institute investigates all major causes of blindness including cataracts, diabetes related eye disease, glaucoma, retinal degeneration , corneal, and immune based diseases. More than 170 scientists at the Lions Eye Institute use a range of technologies to develop treatments for blinding diseases, including gene therapy and telemedicine. The Lions Eye Institute has national international institutional partnerships including American Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Shanghai University, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, University of Missouri and the National Eye Institute.

With such glowing reports why would anyone want to go to the Royal Perth Hospital eye clinic and instead why would they not want to go to the Lions Eye Institute?

My problem, simply put is the following:

My previous ophthalmologist Dr Hock Meng Lim of Murdoch Ophthalmology carried out certain tests on my eyes and obtained the following results: RE + 3 D LE -- 9 D. From these results he could not work out what lenses could be used during a cataract operation on my eyes. For this reason every eye specialist in Perth refuses to

carry out a cataract operation on my eyes, and not because the operation cannot be done.

With all the eminent scientists and professors working at the Lions Eye Institute, surely one of them could come up with an answer as to what lenses could be used for my eyes? After all, it cannot be that difficult a problem?

A small, poor country like Bosnia and Herzegovina has managed to find a solution to this problem. If you don't believe me, then if you can spare 5 minutes it is a matter of googling " Use of the Toric Intraocular Lens for Keratoconus Treatment. " In this article it is shown how a man from Bosnia and Herzegovina with exactly the same eye condition as I have was treated.

Reference was made in the article to an eye clinic called Eye Clinic University Clinical Centre Tuzla. This is nothing like the Royal Perth Hospital eye clinic. The Eye Clinic University Clinical Centre Tuzla is a top world class research facility. Not like the Royal Perth Hospital eye clinic which is a teaching hospital, where people have to wait around in corridors for months or even years in the hope of getting a cataract operation done . My case is urgent. I cannot afford to wait around in corridors for months or even years in the hope of getting a cataract operation done.

At this stage you may be asking yourself the question why don't I just go to the Lions Eye Institute myself ? The answer is not that simple. The Lions Eye Institute is a private organisation and every thing that it does has to be paid for. I cannot afford to pay for the research work that would be involved in my case. What use is a research organisation where everyone with a rare eye condition has to pay for the research work involved in their case themselves? The Lions Eye Institute is able to receive donations from the public and receive grants from government organisations. The State Government donated the building and the land it occupies to it. So where is all the money going to?

In 2017, the Government of Western Australia Department of Health is reported as giving a grant to the Lions Eye Institute for the purpose of a WA ATOM pilot study : Atropine treatment of myopia. Chief Investigator - D. Mackey. I do not know what amount was involved. But for the sake of argument, let us say that it was $60,000. This would mean that before any research work could be carried out by the Lions Eye Institute that amount would first have to be paid. In the case of research work into my eye condition a similar amount would also be required to be paid.

It is alleged that Premier Mark McGowan, Health Minister Roger Cook and Treasurer Ben Wyatt are all referring me to the Royal Perth Hospital eye clinic in order not to have to

spend any money on research work at the Lions Eye Institute. By sending me to the Royal Perth Hospital eye clinic they save the State Government approximately $60,000 in research costs . But at what cost to me and others who suffer from the same eye condition which I have.

In the case of the WA ATOM pilot study, researchers from the Lions Eye Institute recruited school aged children ( 6 -- 16 years) with myopia to participate in a randomised controlled clinical trial on low dose atropine eye drops for the treatment of myopia progression. The effect of treatment on myopia progression was assessed after 3 years. Trial participants were seen 3 times in the first year and twice yearly for the following 2 years. I cannot work out what useful purpose such research could serve.

I, on the other hand suffer from hard cataracts, glaucoma and keratoconus. I cannot have cataract surgery because no one knows what lenses to use. Unless I have the cataracts first removed then I cannot have glaucoma surgery. My glaucoma cannot be controlled by eye drops any longer. So that I am in desperate need of glaucoma surgery and this cannot be carried out until I first have the cataracts removed. This cannot be carried out until someone can discover what lenses are to be used.

In the meantime, the State Government of Western Australia can find money for the WA ATOM pilot study but cannot find any money for research into my rare eye condition.

My letter to all Labor Members of Parliament dated 30 August 2018:

To: All Labor Members of Parliament.

Complaint Re : Mark McGowan the Cruel and Callous Premier of Western Australia.

SUBJECT: The Cruel and Callous Treatment of a blind Pensioner by Mark McGowan Premier of Western Australia and the Medical Profession of Western Australia.

I refer to my letters to you dated 1 August 2018 and 20 August 2018. Since I wrote to you last my situation has deteriorated even further. You are probably asking yourself the question why am I even bothering to write to you, after all you are not even my local member of Parliament. The answer is quite simple.

I refer to the following members of Parliament:

Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia.

Roger Cook the incompetent Minister for Health

Ben Wyatt the Treasurer in the present McGowan Government and my local member of Parliament.

Kate Doust the Speaker in the Legislative Council and my local member of Parliament.

Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia and Roger Cook his incompetent Minister for Health have refused to assist me in any way whatsoever and have adopted the HaDSCO excuse for not doing anything. This was covered in my previous letter to you dated 20 August 2018. In the case of Ben Wyatt, the Treasurer in the present McGowan Government , I spoke to one of his female staffers recently and she told me that all that she intended to do for me was to file away any letters that I presented to her and that she was not going to even bother to reply to any of them. All the letters that have been sent to you have also been sent to Ben Wyatt ,the Treasurer in the present McGowan Government . To date I have not received a reply from him.

Ben Wyatt my local member of Parliament is in full agreement with Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia and Roger Cook his incompetent Minister for Health

that I should remain in a state of permanent blindness for the rest of my life. He is more concerned about balancing his budget than the health and welfare of the citizens of Western Australia.

To date, I have not received a reply from Kate Doust.

All the letters that have been sent to you have also been forwarded on to each Minister in the McGowan Government: Dave Kelly, Simone McGurk, Peter Tinley, Rita Saffioti, Paul Papalia, Ben Wyatt, Mick Murray, John Quigley, David Templeman, Francis Logan, Alannah MacTiernan, Michelle Roberts, Sue Ellery, Bill Johnston and Stephen Dawson. To date, I have not received a reply.

This , then, only leaves me with the backbenchers in the McGowan Government. This is the reason that I am writing to you.

You may not be familiar with a medical condition called glaucoma and I shall explain it here for you very briefly. The human eye is an amazing organ. It has a volume of approximately 6 milliliters and produces 0.3 milliliters of fluid within itself per day. Now the human eye is a closed system and this fluid has to go somewhere. This fluid drains away just as quickly as it is produced by the eye through a specially constructed outlet which is located within the eye itself. When this outlet becomes blocked then we have glaucoma. A new outlet can be created through eye drops . No one knows how they work , but the fact remains that they do work. Unfortunately the eye drops have a limited life time and then they cease to work. Once this occurs then, all that is left is the creation of a new outlet through glaucoma surgery.

Another way of looking at this situation is to think of your eye as a balloon. When too much air is blown into the balloon,the pressure builds up, causing it to eventually pop. But the human eye is too strong to pop and instead all that happens is that the patient experiences extreme pain.

In my case, the eye drops have ceased to work and all that is left for me is glaucoma surgery. I cannot have glaucoma surgery until I first have cataract surgery which no one in Perth is willing to carry out for me because they do not know what lenses to use, not because the operation cannot be done. The Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology is not an option for me. Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia is not willing to obtain any ZIOPTAN for me. ZIOPTAN is another eye drop not available in Australia which may be able to reduce my eye pressure for me. In the meantime the pressure within my eyes is gradually increasing day by day leaving me with enucleation surgery as my last option. You may not be familiar with the term enucleation surgery and I shall explain it here for you very briefly.

An enucleation operation is where the eye ball is removed. The eyelids ,eyelashes, eyebrows and surrounding skin will be left as they are. The eyeball is set inside the protective bony eye socket called the orbit. The eyelids protect the front of the eye and are lined with a protective membrane called the conjunctiva that also covers the front of the eyeball. The optic nerve is attached to the back of the eyeball. There are muscles attached to the surface of the eyeball which are responsible for moving the eye.

During the operation the optic nerve and eye muscles are cut and the eyeball is carefully removed. It is replaced with an orbital implant in the shape of a ball. Some of the eye muscles are then stitched to the orbital implant so that the eye muscles will be able to move the implant. This means that when the artificial eye is fitted at a later date it should move in a similar way to the normal eye. At the end of the operation the conjunctiva, the membrane lining the eyelids, is positioned so that it covers the implant giving the eye socket a pink appearance . After surgery, a temporary transparent shell is put in place in the eye socket to allow healing and give shape. After a few weeks, the clear shell will be replaced by an artificial eye. The operation is usually straightforward but as with all surgery there is a small risk of complications. Short term complications include bleeding , swelling and infection. Long term complications can include discharge and socket irritation or exposure of the ball implant.

The enucleation operation takes about an hour. After surgery the patient is taken back to the ward where his eye socket will be covered with a firm dressing to help reduce the swelling. This will stay in place for about one day. The eye socket will feel painful and sore and pain killers will be provided if required. The day after the operation the dressing will be removed. The eye socket will look red but it will become pinker in colour as it heals. Some bruising and swelling of the eyelids may occur. This can become worse over the first few days before gradually getting better. A clear plastic shell is then placed into where the eye once was. It remains in place until the socket heals and a temporary artificial eye is able to be fitted.

The problem I face with enucleation surgery is in finding a venue. As far as I know Dr Stafford is still working at the Emergency Department at Royal Perth Hospital. If I were to attend at the Emergency Department at Royal Perth Hospital , Dr Stafford would arrange for 3 security guards to again escort me from the building. So , in addition to having to carry out my own cataract and glaucoma surgery, I now have to carry out my own enucleation surgery?

To date, I have written to the following backbenchers in the McGowan Government:

Yaz Mubarakai, Lisa O'Mally, Stephen Price, Martin Pritchard, Amber Jade Sanderson, Jessica Shaw, Jessica Stojkovski, Dr Sally Talbot, Mattew Swinbourn, Chris Tallentire, Cassie Rowe, Samantha Rowe, Margaret Quirk, Reece Whitby, Sabine Winton, Lisa Baker, Dr Tony Buti, John Carey, Robyn Clarke, Alanna Clohesy, Adele Farina, Mark Folkard, Janine Freeman, Emily Hamilton, Mattew Hughes, Kyle McGinn, David Michael, Simon Millman.

To date, I have not received a reply. I am certain that I would have received some replies if it were not for the fact that Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia has managed to deceive you all into believing that if you were to express sympathy for my cause then the State Government would admit liability and would be required to pay compensation to me. Nothing could be further from the truth.

My letter to all Labor Members of Parliament dated 20 August 2018:

To: All Labor Members of Parliament .

Complaint Re: Mark McGowan the Cruel and Callous Premier of Western Australia.

SUBJECT: The Cruel and Callous Treatment of a blind pensioner by Mark McGowan Premier of Western Australia and the Medical Profession of Western Australia.

I refer to my letter to you dated 1 August 2018. Since I wrote to you last my situation has worsened. Recently, I received the following letter from Mark McGowan, the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia:

My reasons for not being able to attend at the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology were extensively covered in my letters dated 25 June 2018, 18 June 2018, and 4 July 2018. Copies of all of these letters were sent to you. Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia has also received a copy of all of these letters and would have been aware of all of the arguments that were put forward. In any event I shall go over them once again very briefly for you.

Prof Morgan the head of the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology has never carried out any research into my rare eye condition. He would not know what lenses to use and he does not specialise in the removal of hard cataracts which I have. Any glaucoma surgery that I will have will stand for nought, unless I can first obtain successful cataract surgery. Despite his best efforts , Prof Morgan will have zero chance of success during any cataract operation for me for the reasons outlined in my letters dated 25 June 2018, 18 June 2018, and 4 July 2018. In addition , Prof Morgan could quite easily assign a trainee ophthalmologist to my case which is a difficult and challenging case even for the best eye specialists in the world. I am allergic to Diamox and if I were to attend at the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology there is every likelihood that I would end up deceased or in hospital suffering

from acute thrombocytopaenia.

I cannot go back to the private specialists who were previously involved in my care. Dr Hock Meng Lim of Murdoch Ophthalmology who was my previous ophthalmologist, allegedly issued me with a termination notice and a banning notice. If I were to set one foot inside his practice then I could allegedly be arrested and charged with trespass. All other Perth ophthalmologists that I have approached have refused to treat me.

This cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia refuses to even consider the third possibility as outlined in my letter dated 27 June 2018, a copy of which was sent to you. This involves treatment at the Bentley Hospital with suitably qualified and skilled eye surgeons. A copy of this letter has also been sent to Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia who has chosen to ignore its contents.

Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia is so preoccupied with balancing his budget that he has lost all compassion and feeling for his fellow human beings. This man is out of touch with reality. He possesses no leadership skills whatsoever and is prepared to do what ever his minders tell him to do. In this case his minders are HaDSCO and HaDSCO wrote the above mentioned letter for him. Someone should have the courage to tap this man on the shoulder and tell him what is going on. By his letter, Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia has condemned me to blindness for the rest of my life.

It is alleged that Dr Hock Meng Lim of Murdoch Ophthalmology did not obtain any ZIOPTAN for me when I asked him for it. The incompetent Minister for Health did not obtain any ZIOPTAN for me when I asked for it and now Mark McGowan the cruel and callous Premier of Western Australia has not obtained any ZIOPTAN for me when I asked him for it.

Finally, this leads me to your role in this matter. Do you intend to stand by and watch and do nothing and not even lift a finger in order to help, just like everyone else?

My letter to all Labor Members of Parliament dated 1 August 2018:

To: All Labor Members of Parliament

Complaint Re: Mark McGowan Premier of Western Australia

SUBJECT: The Cruel and Callous Treatment of a Blind Pensioner by Mark McGowan Premier of Western Australia and the Medical Profession of Western Australia.

I am a blind pensioner who is afflicted with a rare eye disease, cataracts and glaucoma. My blindness is caused by cataracts which if they were to be removed would cure me of my present day blindness. My cataracts cannot be removed because ophthalmologists do not know what lenses to use, not because the operation cannot be done.

In addition I have used up all the eye drops which are currently available for me to control the glaucoma which I am also afflicted with. Unless the cataracts are first removed I cannot have the surgery necessary for the treatment of glaucoma. Without the surgery for glaucoma I face the prospect of permanent blindness very shortly. This is the dilemma that I find myself in. I find that I am in a desperate race against time and that time is rapidly running out for me.

I have written to Mark McGowan ,Premier of Western Australia about a new eye drop called ZIOPTAN only available overseas which may alleviate the symptoms of glaucoma for me, if only temporarily. Yet this wretched Premier refuses to help.

Other countries have managed to find a solution to the problem of what lenses to use during a cataract operation on my eyes. Whereas, here all that Mark McGowan Premier of Western Australia has offered to me is a place in a queue at the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology. For me, the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology is only a short cut to the Karrakatta Cemetery.

Every private ophthalmologist that I have approached in Perth has refused to help me. It seems as though no one is willing to lift a finger in order to help me. The laws governing a situation such as this are totally inadequate, in that it is perfectly legal for a doctor with the ability to intervene, to stand by and not lift a finger in order to help. It is my intention to provide every member of Parliament with a copy of this letter, in order that they are made fully aware of the cruel and callous treatment provided to me by Mark McGowan, Premier of the State of Western Australia and the medical profession of Western Australia.

My letter to Mark McGowan dated 2 August 2018:

To: Mark McGowan Premier of WA

Complaint Re: Your incompetent Minister for Health

Your incompetent Minister for Health has accused me of being too PICKY or too FUSSY or too DIFFICULT TO PLEASE or having NO GOOD REASON for refusing cataract surgery at the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology.

It is quite easy for your incompetent Minister for Health to say that I can go to the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology or to say that an appointment was made for me and that I turned it down. This may be true if I were just suffering from mild cataracts and I had months to sit around and wait for cataract surgery. I have been waiting around for a cataract operation for over ten years now and time is fast running out for me.

I have accused your incompetent Minister for Health of being a MORON for very good reasons.

For me, the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology is only a short cut to the Karrakatta Cemetery.

I am allergic to Diamox a substance that is prescribed to all patients undergoing cataract surgery. Your incompetent Minister for Health cannot seem to understand that if I were to be given a dosage of Diamox accidentally at the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology, then I could possibly end up deceased or seriously ill. No doubt your incompetent Minister for Health couldn't care less about that. If he is so confident about the standard of care at the Royal Perth Hospital Department of Ophthalmology then why doesn't he or a member of his family have a cataract operation done there? In addition I suffer from a rare eye condition called KERATOCONUS in which eye specialists all round the world cannot determine what lenses are to be used during a cataract operation. Does your incompetent Minister for Health expect that some trainee ophthalmologist is going to suddenly have a brain wave and come up with a solution to this problem. I do not think so. He will be only given 5 minutes in which to carry out the operation. So, what will your incompetent Minister for Health advise him to do? In addition I suffer from glaucoma and how does your incompetent Minister for Health propose that this is to be controlled during the operation?

If you wish to find out who is right or wrong please take the time out to read the attached articles. You will find some shocking conclusions concerning the state of the healthcare system in Western Australia.

SOURCES

https://sites.google.com/view/keratoconus

https://sites.google.com/view/markmcgowan

https://sites.google.com/view/royalperthhospital

https://sites.google.com/view/lionseyeinstituteofwa

https://sites.google.com/view/cystoidmacularedema

ULIB- The keratometer index problem (by W. Haigis)

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https://sites.google.com/view/dryeye

https://sites.google.com/view/cataractoperation

https://sites.google.com/view/xengelstent

https://sites.google.com/view/xen45