CARETAKERS throughout New Providence say the constant power outages in the capital are putting the health of their elderly patients at risk.

A number of assisted care home workers told The Tribune the power cuts have stressed out the old folks in their senior care facilities and destroyed the medication and equipment they need to administer care.

Esther Outten, who works for Unity House nursing home, told this newspaper that the outages have forced them to throw out medication and food.

“It’s doing us bad up in here in this old folks home, these old people suffering under here,” she said.

“Every Jesus day it (power) go off and on and right now, all the insulin what we have for the people they get hot and we can’t use them no more.”

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