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CORPORATION OPENS OLD AGE HOME

Posted on: 05/Feb/2011 12:19:59 AM
Mr. M Subramanian, the Mayor of Chennai Corporation inaugurated Chennai Corporations first Old age home in Santhome on Friday in the presence of S V Sekhar, MLA. 

The Mayor announced that five more night shelters would be set up in city. The facility is offered free of cost to the underprivileged elderly citizens. The inmates are mostly from the people who are destitute or anyone else depend upon. The food would be supplied NGOs under strict scrutiny of the Health Department officials. 

More than 700 persons have been rescued by the civic body in the last 10 months and treated at the Communicable Diseases Hospital, Tondiarpet some of them have returned to their home and remaining people who do not have a family are being rehabilitated by the corporation.