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Help needed following injury at work - ambulance

I hate to do this, but I am in a desperate situation following an injury at work.


I work full time for an ambulance service in London. My job involves brining patients home following being discharged from hospital or taking them to hospitals for dialysis, out patient appointments etc. 

This often involves having to carry people up and down stairs. This is a job I love with a passion and I bear no malice towards anyone over what happened. 

However over time, I developed a large inaugural hernia. The doctors tell me this was due to heavy lifting. I basically left the hernia for too long before going to the hospital as I don’t qualify for company sick pay at work. 


Last weekend, (23 August 2019) following being in agony at work, I ended up in St Mary’s hospital having emergency surgery. The surgeons did an incredible job, I am very thankful to them. The NHS is an amazing institution. Thanks to them, I am now on the mend and road to recovery. I am however in a lot of pain and cannot lift anything heavy at all for the next year until fully healed!!!. Doing so, may cause another hernia to develop or a reoccurrence. 

This means in effect I have lost my job. I am entitled to SSP of £94 a week for the next 28 weeks. Other than that,  I have no source of income. I am married with a family so things are very tough. My wife does work, but she can’t manage to take over all the family bills etc. 

(Before having this operation, I had planned to visit the Philippines to visit relatives there as I had won a free plane ticket. I have already sent all spending money in advance to my Philippine bank account which is impossible to withdraw here, so I will still take that trip as I am actually very depressed over this. My future has been ruined by my state of health and I can no longer do a job I love).

(instead of creating a new go fund me page, I edited an old page I had started earlier this year which I had set up when I was considering taking time off for the hernia, in fact I have been in pain with this for the last 12 months, but I loved my job so much, I just took painkillers and struggled through - I regret it now as I also found out through lifting that the back of my abdomen wall has disintegrated according to the surgeons).

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Mal Conlan
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