Bernard Adolphus, Chairperson, Sister Cecilia Home
"One of my biggest observation that I have seen recently, one of our elders had a fall. And this is very disturbing to me. Our doctor and I am hoping that the medical authorities are listening to what I am saying - our doctor send her to the hospital. This lady is about close to 80-85 years old in a home and after a considerably long period she was later attended to. She had fallen on her hand. When the supervisor check with them and tell them what was happening, she was told it's not an emergency case. Only to find out later that the lady hands were broken. To me it's embarrassing. To me it smells negative on our system - that's me. I can go on, but I don't want to say what I shouldn't because I am mad. But the way in the manner in which this elder person was dealt with, because it could have been me, it could been my mother (my mother is dead), it could have been somebody I know. Our authorities, it's a pity some of them were not in this session to learn the proper way in which they should look and care for our older persons. We keep forgetting that."