Elderly's plight when power goes off

Thu, Aug 22nd 2019, 07:00 AM

PAT’S Senior Citizens Home has lost medication, food, four air-conditioning units and three electronic beds due to daily load shedding exercises by Bahamas Power and Light.

The assisted living facility has also had to invest in a generator and hire more staff to cope with the struggles of operating with frequent power outages.

Patricia Moxey, the home’s director, revealed the losses after a media tour of the facility led by Progressive Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis. The PLP organised the tour to evaluate the impact of the “missteps of BPL” amid reoccurring power cuts.

Mrs Moxey said: “As you saw when you did the tour, some of our residents are on oxygen so the machine goes 24/7 so when the electricity goes off we have to run and find the oxygen tank to connect the person up because their life depends on it. We have more than one person who are depending on oxygen in here. Most of our patients came straight from the hospital here.

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