Woman in hospice dies after utility company cuts the power to her oxygen tank
The NAACP considers her death a human rights violation.
ADDY BAIRD JUL 9, 2018, 10:27 AM
A New Jersey woman died last week after the utility company cut off the power to her home, rendering useless the oxygen tank she needed to breathe.
Linda Daniels, 68, was in hospice care. Her family told local media they used a smaller oxygen reserve while her power was shut off, and called emergency services when the reserve ran out. Paramedics brought a portable unit to the house while Daniels’ family called the utility company and pleaded with them to turn the power back on. Eventually, Daniels’ heart failed.
“We put one ice pack by her side and one on the other side,” Daniels’ daughter Desiree told 6ABC. “We were fanning her. It was so hot in here, she couldn’t breathe. It was unbearable.”
The temperature where the Daniels lived in Newark, New Jersey reached into the 90s that day, according to local weather reports.
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Those fuckers.
