Dundee amputee fears he'll be housebound in first floor flat for months as he awaits new home

Kevin Henderson. Photograph by Kim Cessford/DCT Media.

A housebound Dundee amputee says his wait for another council house has become “torture”.

Kevin Henderson, 57, had to get his right leg removed in June following complications from type two diabetes.

The procedure left him in a wheelchair and unable to get up and down the stairs to his first-floor flat in Douglas – but he fears it will be many months before Dundee City Council offers him a suitable home.

He said: “In May I went to Ninewells to get a couple of my toes amputated, but the right leg became full of poison so I was kept in hospital a bit longer.

“Then at the end of June I had to have a below-the-knee amputation on my right leg.

Kevin had his leg removed at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. (Library image).

“I can laugh about it now because I feel so much better for it – I came out feeling brilliant.

“But Dundee City Council has known since June 25 about what was happening and now four months down the line I am still waiting for major things to happen.

“I have been told my flat is unsafe for me to be in because it needs a lot of adaptations for me plus it is up a flight of stairs – there are 16 steps between the ground floor and my flat.

“Even going into the porch is up two steps so I can’t get up there in a wheelchair.

“All the plug switches are high up and the cupboards are all able-bodied person height, so it will be a struggle.

“I can’t go anywhere because I am in a manual wheelchair and I have to push myself everywhere so I will be stuck in one room with a commode next to my bed which I am not happy about.”