PETALING JAYA: Bus stops, hospitals or in their homes – these are among the places where families have resorted to abandoning their elderly parents.
Some of the elderly who were loitering on the streets and asking for donations were in weak condition when they were rescued by the Social Welfare Department.
A person could enter the welfare homes voluntarily or through a court order under Section 3 of the Destitute Persons Act 1977. In July 2022, the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry said some 2,144 senior citizens were abandoned at hospitals nationwide from 2018 till last June.
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