There have been emotional scenes in the House of Commons after Tory MP Craig Mackinlay, who lost his hands and feet to sepsis, returned to Parliament. Mr Mackinlay has joked he wants to be known as the “bionic MP.” The MP for South Thanet was admitted to a hospital in septic shock last September and was put into a 16-day induced coma. He was given just a 5 per cent of survival. He pulled through and said he was “extremely lucky to be alive.” He said he had been “stoic” when he was informed of the decision by doctors to amputate his limbs. “I haven’t got a medical degree but I know what dead things look like. I was surprisingly stoic about it… I don’t know why I was. It might have been the various cocktail of drugs I was on.” The MP has now been fitted with prosthetic limbs. He now plans to campaign for the early diagnosis of the condition that nearly killed him, saying it is crucial that the NHS “recognises sepsis at the earliest opportunity.” A former UKIP member, he has been a Tory MP since 2015 and said he intends to run at the next election.
Emotional moment as MP Craig Mackinlay who lost his hands and feet to sepsis returns to Parliament
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There have been emotional scenes in the House of Commons after Tory MP Craig Mackinlay, who lost his hands and feet to sepsis, returned to Parliament.
Mr Mackinlay has joked he wants to be known as the “bionic MP.”
The MP for South Thanet was admitted to a hospital in septic shock last September and was put into a 16-day induced coma.
He was given just a 5 per cent of survival.
He pulled through and said he was “extremely lucky to be alive.”
He said he had been “stoic” when he was informed of the decision by doctors to amputate his limbs. “I haven’t got a medical degree but I know what dead things look like. I was surprisingly stoic about it… I don’t know why I was. It might have been the various cocktail of drugs I was on.”
The MP has now been fitted with prosthetic limbs.
He now plans to campaign for the early diagnosis of the condition that nearly killed him, saying it is crucial that the NHS “recognises sepsis at the earliest opportunity.”
A former UKIP member, he has been a Tory MP since 2015 and said he intends to run at the next election.
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