00:00Things keep getting more and more difficult for Trinidad and Tobago para table tennis player Dennis Larose.
00:05Larose was inflicted with polio as a child and used his support when walking from place to place.
00:11Added to that, he sits in a wheelchair to play the sport.
00:14However, after being told by a doctor that he had gangrene,
00:18Larose had surgery done in June to remove his left toe at the Port of Spain General Hospital.
00:22But Larose says there were complications that followed after the operation.
00:27My skeleton had become extremely swollen.
00:31It took it nine days to go down.
00:34It took it nine days to go down.
00:37The operation was to remove a toe and to do a bypass surgery from the groin to the ankle
00:46to ensure we get blood to flow into the leg and see if we could save the leg.
00:53As a result, Larose is unable to walk and is still at the hospital despite being discharged a few weeks ago.
01:00The place where he stays in Maraval has many steps and it's not possible for him to enter his premises because of his condition.
01:07What I really asked the Ministry of Social Welfare to do is to try to find me some self-accommodation for at least a month or three.
01:20And to get me a caretaker so that I could get the medical treatment I need so I could be able to recover.
01:28According to Larose, someone from the Ministry of Social Welfare visited him at the hospital weeks ago.
01:34The 64-year-old who spent his birthday at the hospital has been advised to visit the Ministry's offices in Port of Spain.
01:42I have to first come out of the hospital, go down to social welfare, follow form and wait for six months.
01:52And after six months, they will call me and they will try to assist me with $400.
01:58He says it's impossible that $400 a month could help him based on his situation.
02:03Larose says he has given it his all for the country as a player and a coach for nearly three decades, which includes producing some top players.
02:11He also played for the Twin Island nation in several tournaments abroad.
02:15As such, Larose is seeking assistance from anyone willing to help him.
02:19I have served this country wholeheartedly for 28 years. Come forward and try to assist me somehow so that I can have some sort of decency to live for a little couple of months or so and try to recover.
02:38Members from his club, Karanaj Blasters, give him some assistance just to keep him going.
02:43Those willing to assist Larose can do so by visiting any of the Royal Bank branches to deposit money into his account.
02:50His account number is 11 followed by 70757875.
02:58And his contact number is 7325544.
03:03We know that we are on TV6port.
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