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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Elderly woman shackled to wheelchair in summer heat
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAn MK is calling for greater oversight after an elderly woman in Bnei Brak is left tied to her wheelchair in the searing summer heat for close to an hour.
“I saw the woman chained to a fence with her chair, I went to do my shopping and when I returned, I saw her still there,” a local resident tells Channel 2. “I went to ask her if she need anything and whether I could get her some water, and I saw she was sweating profusely and could barely speak to me.”
The passerby says she found the elderly woman’s foreign caregiver in a nearby shop, and that the carer apologized at once and went to fetch water for her charge.
“If this is how the worker cares for an elderly woman outside of the house, I am scared to think what goes on inside it,” says Zionist Union MK Itzik Shmuly, who heads the Knesset lobby for the protection of the elderly. “It is time for the National Insurance Institute to start monitoring the field of home carers.”
The temperature in Bnei Brak today reached a high of 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit).
מזעזע: קשישה מרותקת לכיסא גלגלים נקשרה לגדר במשך 40 דקות בחום, בזמן שהמטפלת שלה עשתה קניותhttps://t.co/c6TPjlbfbO pic.twitter.com/63UcQWeTpf
— החדשות – N12 (@N12News) August 3, 2016
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