Osayuki’s story – I’m a double amputee above the knee and I use prosthetic legs. I’m also a wheelchair user. I graduated with a First Class Master of Pharmacy degree in 2021 and in Oriel (pharmacy national recruitment scheme) my rank was 127 out of 2215 pharmacy students in the assessments. However I’ve been forced to leave the pharmacy profession. One of the reasons that I was unable to complete my foundation training year is due to accessibility issues. In all the hospital Trusts that I worked at, there were no staff disabled toilets and the patient toilets on the wards weren’t accessible. I had to use the public disabled toilets outside the wards, and this took me up to 30 minutes one way to get there. This was very stressful. Sometimes the public disabled toilets outside the wards weren’t accessible either. I also visited other hospitals that have the same problems too.
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I decided to change my career and I’ll be going back to Kingston University in September to study computer science.
Even though I’m changing my career, I started a petition and campaign for toilets in NHS hospitals to be fully accessible for patients and disabled staff. This is an important cause because NHS hospitals should be accessible for everyone. Sign my petition please and share it. The link to my petition is in my bio when you click on my linktree on my Instagram page @hospitaltoilets or @osayuki.i
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634824
