Housing association property partially demolished to save obese teenager

Published by Max Salsbury for 24dash.com in Housing and also in Health

A 63-stone teenager’s housing association property in the Welsh town of Aberdare (pictured) was partially demolished by the emergency services after they took action to get her into hospital for essential care.

Georgia Davis, 19, had become too large to leave the house by normal means so fire crews and workmen demolished a first-floor wall of the three-bed semi she lived in and erected a bridge from the house to the road so she could be stretchered to an ambulance

Ms Davis is now receiving hospital treatment and has been told that she will never return to the house, which is run and owned by housing association RCT Homes.

Elin Price of RCT Homes said that the organisation was working with Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council and the fire service in supporting the girl’s family.

It is understood that Ms Davis hadn’t been seen outside the house for the last three years but needed hospital tests after she reported a sore back and a chest infection.