Payi Guy, weakened after vaccine
A Prince Edward Island man wants other people to be aware of a federal program who provides compensation for serious and permanent injuries from vaccines approved by Health Canada, as he missed the time limit of application and has been left in a strict strainer.
Kent Gillespi wandered between three different businesses to a living.
He said, “I was building, I have been cooking for many years and I had my painting company,” he said during an interview with CBC News at his Charlettown Home.
His life is very different now.
“I tried to go back to work with my nephew and it seemed that every other day I had to take out the day of the day because my hands were closed like this,” he said, showing my tight and painful fingers. “I think a person has a very low.”
Gilespi stated that her problem began with prolonged back pain after her first dose of modern vaccines for Kovid -19 in 2021.
The doctors did not know what was wrong, he said, so when the time came for his second shot of the vaccine, he moved forward with it. Then the mysterious problem started with his hands.
Now their days are spent in implementing anti-inflammatory creams, which he is trying to be the best, and wants to have better awareness about support for low number of people developing vaccine injuries.
“It’s difficult because I (feel) I’m alone. No one is going to help me. I called everywhere.”
Adverse reaction is rare, but not unknown
Most people around the world have received Covid vaccines since the beginning of 2021 Minor side-effects mostlyBy the time Canada stopped updating its database on adverse reactions to covid vaccines in December 2023, only 0.011 percent of all doses had accepted serious reactions.
The lesson on that database also mentioned: “Adverse incidents may occur after vaccination with Covid -19 vaccine, but they are not necessarily related to the vaccine.”
In December 2020, the federal government launched a program to support and compensate people for “serious and permanent” injuries associated with any type of vaccine authorized by Health Canada.
This is called the vaccine injury support program.
By December 2024, Its website saysThe program had paid $ 16.6 million to 209 people out of the 3,060 claims submitted by that date. Out of 1,049, 328 people who were rejected for compensation, were evaluated by a Medical Review Board. Only 10 appeals overturned the original decision by the end of 2024.
When you apply, a doctor has to fill the share of your application form, supporting your claim that your injury was caused by the vaccine. You also have to apply within three years of your symptoms.
Gilespie did not know that the compensation program was present until last year. He said that his Charlottown doctor completed the paperwork and he sent it, only he was told that his claim had been late by 10 months for his claim.
“I was hate, in fact, that our government can do this with us, it can be away with it.”
Kent Gillespie would prefer to be able to work all the time again, but says that her hands and backs have never been the same as she had a bad response to the Kovid -19 vaccine. This is very rare, but is a federal program to support people with serious and permanent injuries from obtaining health approved vaccine by Canada. Unfortunately, according to the report of CBC’s Sheehan Desjardins, Gillespie was too late to help and now is nowhere.
Claims may take 18 months, or more time
The program funded by Canada’s Public Health Agency applies to occupied vaccines by Health Canada and administered in Canada on or after 8 December, 2020.
The vaccine injury support program is administered by a company called Oxaro to insure Oxaro in the words of a public health agency of a Canadian spokesman.
It is meant to help those who have “a serious, life-threatening or life-changing injury, which may require in-purson hospitals, or may need to be hospitalized, and it may result in frequent or significant disability or disability, or where the result is a congenital deformity or death.”
“It takes 12 to 18 months to process the average claim, but may take longer to process the average claim,” a PHAC spokesman told CBC News.
An official of the Oxaro program told CBC News in an email that it could not address any personal matter due to privacy reasons.
Email said, “The VIVP team reviews the hardworking case to ensure that the development of the claimant history and injury is considered when implementing the three -year limit.” “The claims filed by three years of maximum unfortunate cannot be considered.”
Email said information about the program was available on the Canada website, and could be found by searching for “vaccine injury”, and was also promoted by Canada’s Public Health Agency.
CBC News reached PEI’s main public health office to find out what other supports are available. A spokesperson responded on Thursday afternoon.
“Severe adverse events caused by vaccines are very rare,” the email began, the adverse reaction, Gillespie had already tried before giving details about the adverse reaction monitoring measures and the same program: the vaccine injury support program.
Reviews may take years
Gilespie is asking to review his case, but the Canadian public health agency has told him that it may take years.
He has written to all those whom he can think of, including the offices of Prime Minister Mark Carney. He replied to refer to him in the Health Minister’s office in early April, which responded a month later.
I am deeply sorry to learn about issues and challenges you are experienceing. I cannot begin to imagine frustration and impact on your daily life.– PHAC officer’s letter
“On behalf of the Health Minister, I want to thank for sharing my experience with the vaccine injury support program … I am deeply sorry to learn about issues and challenges you are feeling. I can’t start imagining the disappointment and impact on your daily life,” The letter began with the Steven Sttern of PHAC.
But it moved forward: “PHAC is not directly involved in assessment, decisions or results of any individual case and unable to intervene on behalf of individual contenders. This arrangement ensures that cases receive fair and independent medical reviews.”
Gillespie does not have much fight – or money – left.
“This would mean the world,” he said about possible compensation, if this process could reveal that it was the vaccine that caused their problems. “This … will keep me in a house, it will maintain my car, (I) will be able to take my daughter, take her places and accessories like this.
“I am never going to be the same person, though I was again. I think I have lost 20 years from my life.”
