Saturday, March 18, 2006
Pensioners Imprisoned In Care Home Since Christmas.
Twelve elderly residents of a care home run by the Church of Scotland have been stuck on the upper floors of the building since Christmas Day - because the lift is broken and they are too frail to walk down the stairs.
The Church, which runs the home in Stonehaven on the east coast of Scotland, say it has not been possible to repair the lift since it broke down in December because spares have not arrived from Italy, but they expect it to be operational on April 10.
Carrying the patients downstairs is felt to be too much of a safety risk.
Or too much bother, perhaps, and after all they're only old people. What would they want to go out for?
It is hard to comprehend how the people who run this place have managed to keep such a disgraceful situation quiet for all this time, and to state that the lift will be repaired in April, as if to suggest that is satisfactory and the pensioners will remain in this 'Christian' prison until then, is little short of criminal.
To call it a care home is laughable, and the authorities who regulate and licence these places should get these people out and house them somewhere civilized immediately, and shut the place down.
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The Church, which runs the home in Stonehaven on the east coast of Scotland, say it has not been possible to repair the lift since it broke down in December because spares have not arrived from Italy, but they expect it to be operational on April 10.
Carrying the patients downstairs is felt to be too much of a safety risk.
Or too much bother, perhaps, and after all they're only old people. What would they want to go out for?
It is hard to comprehend how the people who run this place have managed to keep such a disgraceful situation quiet for all this time, and to state that the lift will be repaired in April, as if to suggest that is satisfactory and the pensioners will remain in this 'Christian' prison until then, is little short of criminal.
To call it a care home is laughable, and the authorities who regulate and licence these places should get these people out and house them somewhere civilized immediately, and shut the place down.
See all recent posts.
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