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Nursing Home Care: Canadian Citizen

Immigration Officials Dept: Hallima Idan, 47, was left paralyzed after a car accident six years ago, according to CBC. Idan, a Canadian citizen who immigrated from Guyana in 1997, spent months in hospital after the accident then stayed in a nursing home for about a month. Idan said her nursing home care was inadequate and a Toronto woman paralyzed from the chest down is worried she will be forced back into a nursing home if immigration officials go ahead with plans to deport her cousin and his wife, who she relies on for primary care. A wheelchair user with limited use of her arms, Idan requires around-the-clock care to help her eat, bathe and dress. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.