The Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation may build a facility in the future to provide shelter to the mentally challenged people on our streets.
This has been highlighted by Minister, Rosy Akbar during her visit to St Giles Hospital.
Akbar said they do not have an immediate plan to build a facility.
She said those individuals who have been discharged from St Giles Hospital but do not have a family to rely on are taken in to stay at the Good Samaritan Inn in Colo-i-Suva.
Akbar is advising these people to stay at St Giles Hospital or the Good Samaritan Inn until someone steps forward to take care of them.
St Giles Hospital can only take in 80 patients at a time and about 70 patients are currently admitted there.
Out of the 70 patients who are admitted, 10 have been living at the hospital for almost 10 to 15 years.
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