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| Inmates of old-age home yearn to meet family members | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 21: We had a culture of treating our parents like gods and looking after their welfare in old age, but few among us have neglected their duty, pushing these vulnerable souls in the old age homes, where they long for the care of their children.
They do have a hope that one day or the other they will meet their family, but nobody cares. One such place that helps the elders of the city, ‘Home for the Aged and Infirm’ (HAI) situated in Amphalla.
Number of elderly people from across the state are living there, dumped by their families. This old age home provides each and every individual the facilities one gets in their homes including meals, bedding, clothing, shelter and many other best possible facilities.
Surinder Lal has two sons, eight years ago he was left by his children to live in this old-age home and since then nobody has come to meet him.
“Nobody cares about the elders; they forget that one day they too will be old. My life is comfortable here. We get food, medical care and affection, but in the heart of hearts we miss our family,” said Lal.
“When you are capable of earning and can feed your children, they love you, but when their turn of looking after you comes they abandon their parents to live in such old -age homes” said Bodh Raj (73), another inmate of the home, whose four sons left him here seven years back.
An 80-year-elder, who did not want to be named, said, “I am living here for the past 10 years and now all inmates here are my family and for me all my children are no worth then dead.”
The home for the aged and infirm in Jammu was set up by late Ramnath Prabhakar.
Suman Devi- another elder said that her daughters has many times told her to come back but she told her that this is her home now and she is not going to go anywhere leaving it.
Whereas some youth in their spare time come to the old age home to make these people feel better.
Avinash Sharma who often visits the old age home stated that these people needs special attention and love from us what every person should try to give them in the spare time. He said that on Sunday on the occasion of Father’s Day when he visited the old age home to greet them they all were very happy and that is what he wanted.
Additional Secretary of HAI Vijay Kumar Gupta said that he hope that these people are provided with every facility that one gets at home.
He added that the government has fixed a particular amount per head to be given but they do not give even 50% of it to them.
He said that their expenditure goes up to 25-27 lakhs and the government gives them only 50 thousand to one lakh.
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