Medical Needs of the Homeless
(Reported By Richard Frazer)
Substandard living conditions, inadequate nutrition, extreme weather and limited healthcare inevitably lead to serious health conditions. Shelters and homeless treatment programs are simply unable to accommodate people recovering from surgery or those with acute health conditions. Also hospitals tend not to provide extended post-treatment care to homeless patients. Therefore, people who are homeless experience a high rate of unresolved health conditions or complications which lead to repeat emergency room visits and hospital stays due to improper healing as tremendous cost to local hospitals and our community.
By offering appropriate care to post-recovery treatment and/or housing, is an important bridge enabling people without homes to begin or continue on the path to independent living in permanent housing.
People who end up here or find themselves here have no resource and are overlooked by the vast population who simply walk past them. No-one blames a person for walking past. The problem looks huge and unsolvable but it is not.
If every community provided a shelter, food and most importantly a process to get these people back into the system and working towards looking after themselves there would be no homeless problem.
The cost of this is not magnificent it is a bowl of soup in the evening, medical and support at need as opposed to continually turning up at emergency and never resolving the underlying problems which is vastly more expensive.
If every community provided a shelter, food and most importantly a process to get these people back into the system and working towards looking after themselves there would be no homeless problem.
The cost of this is not magnificent it is a bowl of soup in the evening, medical and support at need as opposed to continually turning up at emergency and never resolving the underlying problems which is vastly more expensive.
People living in hostels or sleeping rough can get medical help, advice and treatment.
They have the right to register with a GP but can also get medical help for non-emergencies at the Medical Units but only depending on the resource provision in an area. My area Birmingham is pretty good, but certainly if you find yourself homeless in small towns and rural areas, you have a bigger problem.
They have the right to register with a GP but can also get medical help for non-emergencies at the Medical Units but only depending on the resource provision in an area. My area Birmingham is pretty good, but certainly if you find yourself homeless in small towns and rural areas, you have a bigger problem.
Please keep the issues of being homeless in your mind and help them in your community. More importantly make your MP’s and councillors aware of them. Currently very little is being done as the issue is not one our public representatives want to touch. It is not good attention.
Help them, and help them back in to the community. Have a heart.
Help them, and help them back in to the community. Have a heart.
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