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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>TWO women residing at Okahandja Park informal settlement in Windhoek are suffering from serious chronic health conditions requiring their medication to remain refrigerated.<\/b><\/p>\n

The area, however, has no electricity, and they are pleading for assistance. Constancia Kanguvi (68) says she has been living with hypertension since 2009, but her condition has worsened when a pole fell on her head and caused a fracture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat has later led to diabetes and epilepsy. I got paralysed due to a stroke in 2016, and my condition has worsened since then,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Kanguvi stays with her unemployed daughter, Christine Kanguvi (29), and her two grandchildren. Her right leg had to be amputated three months ago, she says.<\/p>\n

Christine says their current living conditions are disheartening, since her mother does not have a proper wheelchair to help her move around their shack, and they have no access to electricity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe medication my mother requires is supposed to be refrigerated. Because we do not have electricity, we put it under the bed, because that is the coolest place in the house,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Christine says this time of the year is the hottest, worsened by the corrugated iron their dwelling is made of. \u201cWe are pleading to the government to come to our rescue and help us with electricity, because my mother’s life depends on it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Christine says because of the lack of nearby toilets in the community, she has to carry her mother around to relieve herself. \u201cTo help her relieve herself I carry her to behind the house. We later throw ash from where we cooked there to speed up the decomposing process,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Magreta Uiras (58), a diabetic who also lives at Okahandja Park, is experiencing the same challenge as Kanguvi. Uiras has been living with diabetes for three years, and says she stores her medication at her sister’s place, which is far from where she lives.<\/p>\n

She says having access to electricity would have a huge impact on their lives. \u201cOur lives would greatly change if we had electricity in our area,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

LOSS OF POTENCY Former health and social services minister Dr Bernard Haufiku said medication that is not stored correctly can be harmful or lose its potency.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedicines are very sensitive chemicals that need to be stored under certain temperature conditions. If you increase the temperature, you will change the composition of the medicine to the extent where it can be dangerous,\u201d Haufiku said. He added that diabetes medication like insulin loses its potency completely over time.<\/p>\n

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